Branson MO is a very popular choice for both LTR and STR market with lower median price points and consistently draws over 9 million visitors.

Obeying rules because you think you should is not the same as making moral choices.

While the interest rate might be higher, you eliminate the risk of needing to refinance or sell later, making it a safer option if your goal is to hold the property long-term without any financial uncertainty.If maximizing cash flow now is a priority and you're comfortable managing the future refinancing risk, owner financing with a balloon could be the better choice.

We try to warn our buyers about this and to use one of our trusted resources that is normally local, in the business for years, super knowledgeable and has a local reputation to defend and maintain. 

Also from the choices you provided, I believe you are looking at somewhat passive options.  

Unless you have a LURA recorded on the property you can take Sec 8 tenants at any time, your choice. 

As an investor and agent, you can share your knowledge and tips for other first-time investors.

You need knowledge worse then a CRM is my guess.    

For a cash-out refi in Cambridge, MA, you may want to look into local lenders, credit unions, or regional banks, as they often have better knowledge of the local market and can offer competitive terms.

Hi all, new here at the forum and thank you all for all the knowledge you guys share…its amazing.I am interested in this question as well as we just got back into this from like 10 years ago, few things have changed for us, and the main one is finding deals with whole sellers, sometimes the price looks good, but once we add numbers we are currently seeing that everyone else in the deal makes tons of more money than us….for instance, we have checked properties now, where we pay closing cost, interest on a portion of the borrowed money, commissions after selling the property, etc and we see 30-40k going out on all of this,  then we barely make a 20k profit or less on a property of 200k …many of the deal we found we barely get close to a 10-15% of the initial purchased price, which to me sounds like a lot of hassle and my wife says that i am getting old and too picky :)i keep saying that ideally we should shoot for 15-25% profit from the purchase price…if i get a property at 200k and the rehab is 50 and everyone else makes 30k then we should at least net out 30k as well.