I will give you my numbers since we are 3 years into Velocity Banking.Home was purchased at $410k.Interest rate: 3.125%30 year termMortgage payment is around $1950 (includes insurance and property tax)HELOC: 8.25% Variable rate - current rateCredit Limit: $97kLet's say I made $10k a month and our expenses were $6k each month including the mortgage.

The real estate investing industry uses "Classes" to rank property performance risk, but there's NO agreed upon industry model:(Here's what we use for our Metro Detroit market:Recommend you first figure out the property Class you want to invest in, THEN figure out the corresponding location to invest in.Property Class will typically dictate the Class of tenant you get, which greatly IMPACTS rental income stability and property maintenance/damage by tenants.If you apply Class A assumptions to a Class B or C purchase, your expectations won’t be met and it may be a financial disaster.If you buy/renovate a property in Class D area to Class A standards, what quality of tenant will you get?

How we purchased our property: Combination of Savings, Personal Loan with interest from a family member (4% interest) and a cash loan from Wells at about 8%.

Gross rent multiplier (GRM) A method that divides the purchase price by the gross annual rents when the property is 100% occupied.

But i was able to achieve the elusive infinite return on a majority of my RE and all of my investment RE that I purchased prior to 2020.Infinite return has the benefit that the finances are not the hindrance to scale.  

You should be able to do a pretty decent update with $50k (purchase price not included).

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And maybe I am misunderstanding something but if they purchased the property from me, take over taxes, insurance, and HOA, wouldn't they be on title?

I set up a meeting with high hopes that this would be a good way to purchase my first few properties of section 8.

Here's the key components to calculate your tax liabilityAdjusted cost basis - Is the purchase price, plus capital improvements, minus depreciation.