If you havent already, run scenarios with your lender to get an idea of upfront & monthly costs for getting a heloc vs selling and then purchasing a MF as a primary. 

. :-)) Run 2025 through quicken and at the end of the year you’ll have real numbers and you can come back to this post and see how close you were.

Running numbers on a spreadsheet and in a BP calculator every day for ten properties when you have never seen one in real life or smelled mold or been to a hoarder's house or seen a structural issue is just procrastinating.

Running the numbers can be deceiving at first.

I can't wrap my head around believing that has any seriousness in it what so ever.

This is something that will be hard to judge at first but once you start getting the hang of walking a property, and doing the flips you will be able to estimate off the top of your head when you walk into a place.

And if it is a misuse of the inspection contingency, aren't wholesalers who do this running the risk of being sued and even being forced to purchase the property themselves? 

I think guests hardly ever damage things intentionally, but when you have luggage coming in and out all the time and little kids running around a "new place," there IS a lot more wear-and-tear, scuffs/dents/scrapes, and broken glass. 

- Appears you are allowing the tenants to run the business, not the other way around. - We do not answer the phone outside of business hours.

If there is no HOA because it has been family run, it will be dicey, but generally if it is a private road, all those on the road are collectively responsible for maintenance and improvements.