You can get 30 year fixed financing on residential (1-4 units) where commercial your looking at 5-7 year terms (unless your buying core assets, $2MM+ in value with 40-60% down - then you also have the opportunity to lock in 30 year rates via life insurance companies).

If the building is WF and you just nailed down hardwood over Plywood or OSB, your downstairs neighbor would hear every step you took.2) When you are living in an apartment where people below you can make alterations to their property, you want to compel them to ensure structural changes  won't cause you to become their unintended room-mate.

There is no substitute for personally meeting the people who will be the core of your investment team.

hi david. doing a county records search is a good idea. you can also check for any foreclosure proceedings and such while you are there. the absolute fastest way to find the bank that holds the property is to call the local treasurers or tax authority office. someone is paying the taxes, ask who. most of the time, the bank will either pay them themselves or use an escrow agency to do it such as core logic. if that is the case, then call the escrow agent and see if they will give you that information. sometimes they will, and other times they won't. good luck

I can help out with a duplex modular with wood floors, granite tops throughout, solid core doors, pella windows delivered for @ $130/sfSend me a message, I've been working with modular for 2.5 years and finally found a way to thread the needle 

There's a lot that really should go on around it, but that's the core of it.That's enough to make you very dangerous because I don't have the time / room here to give you the content of the five or so 8-hour classes where that instruction is contained (Tax and Legal I & II, Self Directed Retirement Accounts, Private + Hard Money, Property Analysis).Again, spend some quality time here on BP.

Your core business is not based on revenue generated from "Hold Deposits". 

I'm an investor in Nashville core.

I'm curious cause I can't still pull out of this deal if there is a compelling reason. 

It would be naive to think that the increased spending on defense will offset those changes.In addition, many of the things that make real estate such a compelling investment could be altered in ways that cause us help or harm.