The properties are being sold to me for a combine $92000 but the appraisal cane back at $150000.

I've been running numbers on a combination of Airbnb and potential long term rentals on a house with a garage apartment. 

The program can also be used to develop low income housing, say in combination with LIHTC or mixed-income. 

You being new and far away may not be the best combination for your 'first time'.

@Jon SullivanOption 1: Get another bank.Option 2: Seller lowers the price.Option 3: Buyer pays the difference in cash.Option 4: Some combination of 1-3.Option 5: Buyer walks away.

She ended up losing all of them in foreclosure and filing for bankruptcy.The damage from the housing crisis — a toxic combination of frenzied buying, rampant construction, predatory lending and investment excess — was extensive.

I had fancy UC Berkeley online library access, so I did what anyone in that position would do and read all the peer reviewed academic literature on bed bugs written by people with Ph.D after their name (including pre-modern remedies that worked & still work), and over the course of a few months eliminated the infestation myself - chemical free.

House hacking combined with a 1031 exchange method has the power to truly broaden your investing horizons should you choose to continue investing.

A 1980's four-plex not too far from our current neighborhood, close to good schools, combined monthly rents of $3,400 for an asking price of $320,000.

There are literally more multifamily properties available in Oakland, then all of San Jose and Santa Clara combined.