The only thing I'd suggest is to raise your rents unless you think you're at the top of the market.

Financial Highlights•Acquisition Price: $72,000•Renovation Costs: $35,600•Total Investment: $107,600•Funds: raised from personal savings and private lenderHow did you add value to the deal?

The government then keeps raising taxes to compensate for the shrinking tax base to fund their bloated civil servant pensions.

Raising rents to market levels is a big deal and hard to do. 2.

In other words, your renters have covered a majority of your costs of ownership this year, including covering your debt, and you have to put some additional money in, which raises your cost basis.

I raised the rent to 1000 and then the property management companies all collapsed.

With your balance sheet and cash, you can put together creative deals without giving up equity and without using your cash but you are going to need to find a market and product which has 7-8% cap rates.I invest in the northeast, Great Lakes area.Diverse economies with education, healthcare as the back bone and tech as growth.In your area, you’ll have to raise way more capital in the form of equity just to meet DSCR with the banks.

I’m in the same boat with working, investing, and juggling all this with raising 2.5 year old!

Your neighbor s as Sean mentioned, have a lower tax bill likely due to the fact that they live there and there are laws that prohibit the tax assessor from raising the property values more than 3% per year when it's your primary residence okay, it's also fairly common for your tax bill to significantly increase in the tax year after you purchase it.

Without rent control i either raise their rent far above market rents so they give me notice (my preferred method) or i simply do not renew their lease.