Afraid of secondary effects, both Fannie and Freddie remain in conservatorship today.What specifically did they do wrong?

I also usually compound the return by reinvesting my payments, so the present 12% fund effectively returns 14.38% which is pretty awesome.  

For your seller its an effective sales price of ask - 2% using your assumed $500,000 thats $490,000, a real good offer depending on your market.  

Hey everyone, I’m just curious if any of you have any good links to blogs about saving money on food costs for a family.

Is your concern reliability or effectiveness?

Also a ton about it here https://www.biggerpockets.com/blog/renovation-toolkit

Again, the BiggerPockets store has some books on this topic, or you can learn about it by watching podcasts, reading blogs, and interacting on the forum.

Everything you need to know is available in books, podcasts, blogs, and the forums.

It explains the team that you should develop to have a strong foundation under you while investing remotely.https://www.biggerpockets.com/blog/core-four-real-estate-team

Quote from @Jimmy Lieu: Quote from @Andrew Syrios: The BRRRR strategy is tough these days (I even wrote an article about it that goes into more detail a little while back: https://www.biggerpockets.com/blog/beyond-brrrr-taking-advan...)In short, high interest rates as well as labor/material costs makes it hard to buy a property with debt and cash flow.