Have your cake and eat it too!

If you get appreciation, well then that's a cherry on top of your cake. 

If they could, they would and if you can, that’s just icing on the cake. - Remember the 1-2% rule is a baseline, starting point.

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You need to buy right going in generating cash flow and upside is icing on the cake and not what is needed to make the investment work.   

You can not have your cake and eat it too.

These numbers are not great but for this area I think they're decent.Also I know that I bump rents in at least 2 of the units, and rent out the garages separate, and maybe even rent out some of the land for boat storage etc.Also the icing on the cake is my long term strategy, which would be to tear down the existing SFH and garage and build at least 4 more 2/1 units.

I’m just starting out on my real estate investment journey. The only thing I have to get started is a property I’ve inherited that own free and clear with an zestimated worth of 83,000. My wife and I make a combined 9...

But I can't fathom any way of securing certainty that said buyer would not be outbidded by someone else, at which point the opportunity of course would be gone.I've looked into a few other approaches, such as Short Payoff, and about to seriously look into bankruptcy.My Goal:Structure a deal that would allow me to comfortably situate my mother, and launch my own investment profile.This is a very hot neighborhood, and most of the brokers and investors I've been talking to keep PROMISING that this would be a piece of cake. 

Legally you can not have your cake and eat it too.