If you need help evaluating properties here, let me know.We have so many companies moving here and expanding here.

This includes trips to properties for evaluations, trips to Home Depot, etc. 

However I am struggling to understand and evaluate the risks involved with cash out refinancing 2-5 years down the line.

What are your tips on finding and evaluating areas to purchase?

It's definitely important to evaluate appreciation vs cashflow.Do you mind sharing where your Arkansas deal was and how you found them?

I am evaluating my options at this point. 

It's a tool he made to evaluate deals on the BP Money Podcast and is available free to anyone!

Get yourself to a point where you can evaluate a few different groups, and be able to pick the one that suits you best for your first investment.

Start by researching areas that fit your goals, understanding financing options like FHA loans, and using the 1% Rule to evaluate deals.

When it comes to turnkey investments you are paying for convenience essentially you are approaching it like a stock or paper asset when it is very much not... meaning that at some point it needs to be actively managed and evaluated and etc., etc., etc. for example finding cash flowing investment properties which meet your ROI goal of 9% is NOT HARD heck almost every state (and likely every state) has a market which will achieve that but what does 9% mean without a dollar value if 9% is = to $200 or more okay that’s okay but if 9% means $25/mo. or alternatively if 50% ROI means $25/mo. doesn’t really matter much since although labor differs from area to area it doesn’t differ that much and also doesn’t really leave much room for error — so your minimum accepted ROI should also be couple within a minimum accepted $$ value (cash flow) and other minimums as well (i.e. min. equity, property types, property classes, etc.)Lastly as I mentioned achieving a 9% ROI is not hard and is achievable in every state; the HARDER part is to 1) achieve that AND 2) achieve 10-20% min.equity on the buy in or ARV AND 3) meeting your min. $ value AND 4) buying in a good/stable neighborhood/market AND 5) buying with some type of upside AND 6) etc. etc. etc. —- Again I’m not saying you have to do these things; it all depends what type of investor you are and what you are looking for however it is important to understand that if you shift the responsibility of either identifying the invest property or managing or any other aspect there WILL be a trade off — in this case the turnkey company has delivered on your goal of 8-9% ROI (projected... so TBC) and in return you have traded some of the other benefits of investing in RE for the convenience of not having to do much more than to look over the properties they have sent you and funding it from the comfort of your home, office, etc. ... again if this is the goal then you are on point but if the goal is to also partake in ALL of the other benefits of RE then you should understand that and not be surprised that it’s not a ‘stellar’ investment that checks all the boxes.