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Desiree Board Advice for a new long term rental investor
3 February 2025 | 27 replies
They’ll handle tenant screening, maintenance, and rent collection, ensuring things run smoothly while you focus on growing your portfolio.Ultimately, starting local and self-managing is a common path for new investors, but outsourcing property management or investing remotely can work well with the right systems in place. 
Kenyatta Barthelemy Starting out in New Orleans/ Baton Rouge
27 January 2025 | 21 replies
They can also collect rent for you. 
Shakthi Kamal Is a min of 2% rent to price ratio needed for positive cashflow in today's market?
6 January 2025 | 2 replies
Also, focus on 2 years of job/income stability.Class D Properties:Cashflow vs Appreciation: Typically, all cashflow with little, maybe even negative, relative rent & value appreciationVacancy Est: 20%+ should be used to cover nonpayment, evictions & damages.Tenant Pool: majority will have FICO scores under 560 (almost 30% probability of default), little to no good tradelines, lots of collections & chargeoffs, recent evictions.
Thomas Malone Anyone experienced with Lee Arnold's system
23 January 2025 | 56 replies
But, of course, the Bible does warn us about “wolves in sheep’s clothing.”It ended up costing us $35,000 (I found out later that some people in the Inner Circle class only paid $20k) to be in Lee’s Inner Circle, which I joined for the sole purpose of having funding.
Gustavo Delgado why should we still invest in real estate?
4 January 2025 | 25 replies
Nothing to get crazy about but no need to deal with tenants, property taxes, repairs, vacancies, etc. just sit back and collect.
Matthew C. Advice on multifamily vacancy
13 January 2025 | 11 replies
Rather than use credit score as a criteria, I reject for consumer accounts in collections and unpaid civil judgments.
Tayvion Payton Investing in MultiFamily
12 January 2025 | 20 replies
Also, focus on 2 years of job/income stability.Class D Properties:Cashflow vs Appreciation: Typically, all cashflow with little, maybe even negative, relative rent & value appreciationVacancy Est: 20%+ should be used to cover nonpayment, evictions & damages.Tenant Pool: majority will have FICO scores under 560 (almost 30% probability of default), little to no good tradelines, lots of collections & chargeoffs, recent evictions.
Jason Mitchell New Detroit Rental Investor
8 January 2025 | 9 replies
Also, focus on 2 years of job/income stability.Class D Properties:Cashflow vs Appreciation: Typically, all cashflow with little, maybe even negative, relative rent & value appreciationVacancy Est: 20%+ should be used to cover nonpayment, evictions & damages.Tenant Pool: majority will have FICO scores under 560 (almost 30% probability of default), little to no good tradelines, lots of collections & chargeoffs, recent evictions.
Chris Magistrado Digging Into the Justice Department’s Lawsuit Against Major Landlords
12 January 2025 | 8 replies
Sec 8 collects data to "price fix" what they will allow.
Makan A Tabrizi Apartments.com Providing Residentscore
3 January 2025 | 11 replies
For example a 25 y o applicant who has used credit minimally and has an unpaid bill of $50 in collections from when they switched phone carriers may have a low score, but the only negative on their credit is this one SMALL $50 debt.