Many passive RE investors, hard money lenders, and note buyers seem to be happy with low double digit rates of return, thinking that, relative to stocks, bonds, mutual funds and annuities, mid-teens is a respectable yield.  

Father of two very smart teens and need to spend more time with my family.

Hi,  I downloaded the beginners guide about fifth-teen minutes ago.

After spending my teens and early 20's in the stocks, I have learned that I'm not a great guru on what will appreciate.  

I was a teen in Orlando in 1969 and it's still a great place for families.

If interest rates were much higher or if the bulk of the posters on BP were people that could not allocate assets to projects with mid teen returns on capital this may be a different discussion.  

It is not sexy, but it is efficient.

Because of that, it's generally better to just exit the residential world and associated BS entirely, and just get commercial financing.Simultaneously you should be putting an exit-plan together to get out of portfolio/commercial/hard and back into fannie/freddie's sexy 30 year fixed world.

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Combine that with large investment firm activity and you can get an idea of where the expansion cycle is.I asked my teen niece why she is no longer on Facebook and she said "because grandma is on there".