If you can just get into a deal now and hold it or renovate it while rates fluctuate, you'll be in a great place to refinance once rates come down again.You're right about time in the market!

However, this number fluctuates based on the degree of repairs,vacancy,capex. 

HELOCs are no longer a favored option for this market.Before I give an example, it's a good idea to explain how HELOCs are calculated - because there are a lot of people on BP that do not know.HELOCs are adjustable, which means that they are tied to an index that fluctuates throughout the entire term of the draw repayment.

I calculated I would need 7 mobile homes with the land and my cashflow went up 857%I'd suggest doing this math.2) This strategy scares me in today's market with interest rates fluctuating so much.  

Hello everyone, two of my rental units' furnaces are fried because National Grid (utility company) had a bad wire outside of the house causing fluctuations in electrical current coming into the building. 

(Success fluctuates with the current market trend, freshness of the list, parameters set, etc.) 

You will always make more money when there are fluctuations in the economy.  

I do my best to try and ignore the daily fluctuations in trading price. 

Sure, the market fluctuates and short term market appreciation is very difficult if not impossible to predict, however there is a long term historical trend that is fairly consistent at least in some markets (and this can be confirmed or not by studying historical pricing data) ... for multi-decade hold periods (spanning several RE cycles) in these type of markets, long term average (over the hold period) is not really that difficult to predict.

Im an insurance broker and have worked in the insurance industry for over 6 years and there’s 2 things to know... 1) insurance is different everywhere as it is rated down to the zip code 2) rates fluctuate each year and each carrier has a different rating system.