Quote from @Denise Brown-Puryearise Brown-Puryear: Quote from @Jamie Bateman: For full disclosure, I will say that I am a partner in a brand new loan servicing company that just opened its doors.

That way, you can get your foot in the door, start building equity, and stay at home a bit longer to save more money.You could also consider the BRRRR method where you buy a fixer-upper, rehab it to add value, rent it out, and then refinance to pull your cash back out.

that we’ve learned in our 24 years, managing almost 700 doors across the Metro Detroit area, including almost 100 S8 leases:Class A Properties:Cashflow vs Appreciation: Typically, 3-5 years for positive cashflow, but you get highest relative rent & value appreciation.Vacancy Est: Historically 10%, 5% the more recent norm.Tenant Pool: Majority will have FICO scores of 680+ (roughly 5% probability of default), zero evictions in last 7 years.Class B Properties:Cashflow vs Appreciation: Typically, decent amount of relative rent & value appreciation.Vacancy Est: Historically 10%, 5% should be applied only if proper research done to support.Tenant Pool: Majority will have FICO scores of 620-680 (around 10% probability of default), some blemishes, but should have no evictions in last 5 yearsClass C Properties:Cashflow vs Appreciation: Typically, high cashflow and at the lower end of relative rent & value appreciation.

This being said, I don't believe we'll be able to meet the income requirements to qualify for a conventional.This leads me to believe hard money or private lender is more the only option to get my foot in the door, use my business to make repairs at very good rates, build some equity then refi once the balloon is due. 

I own 12-doors in Detroit and 3 of those are rented to section 8 tenants.The best areas for S8 tend to be C Class neighborhoods.

I am also in Cincinnati and I did speak with True Home Ohio (https://truehomeohio.com) and they seemed to be somewhat reasonable except I believe they take a flat fee of $105 per door so depending on how much rent is for that door it could be cheaper or more expensive but their other fees I thought were very reasonable.

Purchase price: $630,000 Cash invested: $120,000 Gutted this property, brand new electrical, furnace, propane, finished basement to create separate unit.New garage with rental unit.

If you have just one business it's not too bad(My wife uses it for hers) but it starts to get really expensive if you have a lot of doors and or multiple businesses. 

  $100 a door doesn't help cover the unexpected repairs. 

I had to replace doors, carpets, repaint.