If Cali was a measurable hood it is quickly becoming the better hood as in the ones coming make over 100k in a significant per capita percentage like never seen before.

Hi @Leonardo Roman,For any mortgage guideline thing measured in years, getting more specific than "years" serves no purpose, and could hurt you.

The bottled water is just an extra precautionary measure.

@Cory Griffin I would get some defense going on the home budget and start stacking that 20% as fast as you can.. what gets measured gets accomplished.....

Hey how are you Tom Ott thanks for taking the time out to read my post I'm already in the process of looking at multiple properties but my stumbling block at the moment is trying to get in contact with the owner of a vacant property I'm not sure of the measures that's required and or if I have to pay for that information..your feedback is greatly appreciated, once again thank you

ROI % looks okay, but that would have to be measured against your goals and what the area can generate.

Actually the use of percentages on the expenses related to income rental properties are usually very accurate measurements based on hundreds of thousands of rental property statistics.

Loudon County is the richest county in the entire nation as measured by median household income....so not a lot of people in distressed situations there.

Cash out refinances where the subject property was purchased within 6 months (measured from HUD-1 date to the disbursement date of the new mortgage) when no financing was obtained for the purchase are allowed under the following parameters:  

I know that there isn't a one size fits all model, but efficiency to me is always the most important; measured by how much money does my $1 dollar generate - i.e. % ROI.