Moreover, you can credit what you paid to Mexico against your US taxes so, depending on your US tax rate, what you pay to Mexico might end up making no difference to you because you'd have to pay to the US what Mexico doesn't charge you.

In 2020 I bought my first house 3 bedroom 1 bathroom and a 2 car detached garage for $175,000 and put a 10k downpayment on it and interest rate was 3.5%, in 2023 I decided to rent it out for $1350 mortage was $1106.62, in 2024 we raised the rent to $1450 and our mortage currently is $1144.76- I never put into account repair expenses, Capex, vacency until I read on rental investment properies book.

With the rise in housing costs across Texas, there’s been a lot of talk around affordable housing initiatives.

Working on a few STR deals with savvy investor sellers and we are wrapping some really low interest rates so the DOS clause concern is very much alive… We have decided to go the land trust route w/ one of the properties to try to be as careful as possible.

Let’s take Florida as an example (which usually has the highest bicycle fatality rate in the United States):Gun fatalities: 12.6 per 100,000 peopleBicycle fatalities: 5.7 per MILLION people 

Along with the travel distance there is 50%+ swing in rental rates. 

The assumption is rates will come down, bringing cap rates with it.  

I was going to have to build an interior fire rated stairwell.  

Every local bank does dscr loans, 20yr term, with 3 or 5 yr rate reset, you might be able to get 25yr term but all will require personal guarantee to start and 3 yr historical financials.

It will be a hire rate that market average, but at least it will be principal and interest bearing.