If you prefer steady cash flow and lower risk, Ohio is a solid choice.

This can be very expensive and is usually the worst choice because you can't justify the cost.2.

But the portfolio operations enabled both of those entities to use, in effect, government-related borrowing costs and sort of unlimited credit, to set up the biggest hedge fund in the world...So the portfolios are poison.

The choice between JVs and syndication depends on personal aims and interests.

Every lender has guidelines; that’s why it’s important to perform due diligence with lenders, just as they do with borrowers. 

An duplex (main floor + basement suite) would be a great choice and you can decide if you will be living at the main floor or the basement.

Look to other members suggestions and, definitely interview your Realtor choices before going headlong into an agreement.

I called them and we spoke about being a borrower and about being loan broker.

At the beginning, it may be difficult to get a more expensive property that will appreciate well and so your choice is go with the cheaper property and get cash flow until you can sell and upgrade, or wait for a really good deal which you may be waiting for quite a while and its possible that you will have spent so much time waiting that you could have purchased multiple cash flowing properties by the time you get a good appreciation deal that you can qualify for / refinance after the rehab. i know anyone can go out and get seller financing deals, HML, flip to build capital or whatever the case may be I am just saying sometimes those will be harder and could result in less deals overall. 

And while you get upset, sometimes you have no choice but to close with bad terms, or forfeit your EMD.