Free initial consultations are pretty common, but we do not offer them anymore.

Property taxes are pretty crazy. 

The house I just bought last week with 5% down was $620k purchase and the PMI is $108 per month, so pretty minimal in the big scheme of things; I would't pay the extra $93k to save $108 per month, that's only a 1.4% premium.

Hey @Doug Hayden - This is a pretty small deal!

I pretty much second everything Chris wrote with the one addition of id recommend getting a personal loan if you could swing the higher monthly payments.

It's gone pretty bland without innovative ideas, creative financing, creative ways to advertise, success stories, all the focus is on very bland investing.

In the meantime, we may also want to renovate our current home to increase its overall and/or rental value.The plan is to scale our real estate investment portfolio pretty aggressively after our next purchase.

Seeing as our house is pretty rural, our choices are limited.

The rest, set aside contingency funds to account for things you think may have been missed, unless its a terrible deal, move on.If the owner doesn't keep Quick books or any other accounting, you won't see a P&L or cash flow statement, so you'll be working off the leases.This is pretty common.  

We are a pretty large city, but ours still aren't online yet.