Having a wide base of knowledge will help as you look for your first deals.Read about creative financing (no/low money down), read about hard money, soft money, and all the other money feelingsBasically, read read read!

real estate website Point2 has developed a list of the best places for life after college, and Austin — home of the University of Texas — hooks the No. 1 ranking.The website looked at an array of factors to come up with its ranking, such as population growth, business growth, median age, household income growth, poverty rate, and housing availability and prices.Point2 considered only the 86 places that host the country’s 100 most successful colleges and universities, as rated by U.S.

They are world wide, have a ton of support locally and across the country.

It is 7 feet high finished basement remodeled with wide plank wood flooring, drop ceiling and gypsum boards, heated withbaseboard heaters hydronic. thanks for input. 

4 - What would you estimate for average monthly power, gas, water, and trash (I know, this is going to be a wide range depending on # of occupants, climate sensitivity factors, etc)?

I’m my opinion, I foresee some huge shifts in the nation wide real estate market (and not for the better) coming likely around the beginning of the year.

I bought a sfr last year that was a total gut rehab and had a construction loan on it and only had to pay interest for a year.I just found anther property with two single wide trailers and a house on it that are all fully remodeled this year.The bank I deal with said they would let me pay interest only payments for the first year.She can’t really understand why I would want to do that but my opinion is it’s more money in the bank for me which is needed since I’m just getting started.Anyone have any opinions on this?

Seeing wide spread rent reductions while 2-3 units buildings are selling at $600-700k.

A conservative IRR of 5 to 7% is very reasonable but there will be wide variation years after years of the yearly yield.

I have searched far and wide in BP and Google and while reviews may be helpful, no one has given a solid recommendation aside from few on the forum.