The universe is a puzzling thing...Often most things in reality are born out of our thoughts.

Many people just have a piece to the puzzle. they might have a great deal, but can't buy it or can't find a buyer.

The #1 most important piece to the puzzle is the property mgmt company because they allow you to focus on your full-time job and not have to wake up at midnight to repair a toilet.

If you've bought properties before, maybe you won't need an agent this time.I have to say, though, that my mortgage broker was probably an even more important piece to the transaction puzzle with regard to knowing all the funky FHA rules and helping me navigate the torturous underwriting process.My advice here isn't about the buyer's agent... make sure you have an excellent advocate on your lending side of things if you're going FHA!

I think the pieces to the puzzle will start to come together, once I get some prior things worked out.

ARV is one of the most critical aspects of the puzzle to estimate correctly for your investments, with so much on the line why would you chance it?

Some of the lessons learned are shared in this article, and I want to share those lessons related to the financing of the purchase.Financing is always the biggest piece of the puzzle in commercial real estate.

The point is, you can do it however you want, but there are always a lot of moving parts to the puzzle,, and one affects the other.

I'm not in the 20+ range yet, but knowing the financing game is a huge piece of the puzzle.

So you can visit the basement, watch tv in the basement, knit afghans in the basement - but based upon the egress requirements you defined, it cannot legally be used as a sleeping area.So, if you do as you propose, and the housing police show up, you can try to sell them a story that you are not actually using the basement as a bedroom, and you really sleep on the couch upstairs, and you only visit the basement to assemble puzzles and play solitaire.