When I closed on my first duplex in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania in August 2017, "the 2% Rule" was the gold standard for determining whether a property would cash flow.  

Quote from @Billy Smith: Having all or most of your rentals paid off is a great feeling with the cash flow rolling in .You know have a bigger shovel to buy more properties , folks get the fever want more more dam the debt full speed ahead .I read a lot saying what  is the rate of the  note ,you could deploy the money in  ,gold ,stocks etc....With just a couple rentals paid off in A -B area I put my kids though Division 1 state college.  

, if that was your purchase price and only put $10k to rehab , where did you find this gold mine in 2019!

Class A & Class B properties with cash flow neutrality & YOY appreciation of 5-8% atleast, vacancy rate of less than 5% would make sense for me however new construction is out.That is something which i am not ready to commit to just yet considering the issues with global issue with builders and supply chain. 3.

Also a lot of the hard money lenders these days from 1st time flipper want to see that you have about $50,000 liquid to weather any storms, like supply chain issues from Long Shoremen's strike. 

If a quit claim deed was used to transfer title in a normal sale one just wants to make sure the chain of title seems clear and that the owner issuing that deed had clear ownership.This is why we have title searches done and pay for title insurance to research these sorts of things and to protect us against the oddball unforeseeable circumstances.

I wish I could make it work with sub 100k properties, but that's usually fools gold (especially in 2023) and just not where you find long term success.

It’s always the, you don’t understand btc/block chain OR using PAST DATA to be like look, super shiny and you missed out.

That low interest rate is gold, and as rents in Stockton are still climbing, you could achieve positive cash flow relatively easily.

Supply Chain DisruptionsConstruction Delays: Global supply chain issues, particularly in construction materials, can delay new developments.