Quote from @Jim Rice: Lauren, really just trying to put together a group that would what to meet up if possible and share education, information & build relationships.

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Secondly, I'd chat with a realtor and get some recs on lenders to truly see what you're working with in terms of buying power.

I would have thought as a mod, you'd have access to that information. ?

There are two types of return from a rental propertyCash Flow & Appreciation.I normally also aim for a minimum of 8% return between Cash-Flow and Appreciation.Appreication, nationally, is around 2% to 3% annually.Therefore, your goal is to get the cash-flow to be about 5% to 6%.The issue is interest rates being very high, you would therefore, need to buy at a pricepoint where the numbers still make sense.You can always put down more of a downpayment to cash flow, but that will impact your cash on cash return calculations.Best of luck!

So I have my house that refinanced in 2020 for a 15yr 2.5% rate and we have about 56k equity. Purchased at 211k . We have an opportunity coming up from a family member who is willing to sell us my childhood home for w...

Can someone explain something about the buy, borrow, die concept of avoiding income taxes? 

Zillow has a lot of valuable information, but keep in mind that it's algorythms don't work in every market. 

Interest rate 3.8% In short this is how you do it...Find a flip opportunity, use hard money or what you got to buy, rehab it, re-finance it, boom.  

That has informed us for this year's trip, and we'll be staying in Langosta/Tamarindo, Potrero/Flamingo, and Hermosa (Guanacaste not Jaco).Of course, there are tons of beautiful places in CR, and the better climate (read: less hot) is found at higher elevations.