You should expect to being 20%-25% down for the initial purchase if you are a fist time investor. 

Good tenants get a reasonable bump in rent, and bad tenants get their walking papers. 

Of course, we hit some bumps along the way.

Bumping this post! 

I know this an old link so rather than offer my insights relative to the questions already posed, I thought I would bump the link and offer to answer any questions that remain or resurface.

Should get appraised this week but trying to figure out how much they’re going to list and if they’re mostly trying to recover loss from the foreclosureJust kindly bumping this up @Stacie Smith.

Changing just the utilities and bumping rents really would change the whole picture, creating roughly a $600/month swing.

Just to bump this.

Bump! 

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