Not saying it isn't possible, but I would plan on capturing appreciation for the first couple of years and cash flow will come.

I realize there's no way to capture everything, and learning is a continual process, but it feels helpful to me to have a working "cheat sheet" of information to study and reinforce important concepts.

SFH go for a lot more than townhouses and apartments here, but mom and pops (like me) use all sorts of random ways to post rentals so its probably hard to capture.

You make markets for these folks, and capture upside.The real value is in the land, is it in a good area in Houston? 

If you are trying to capture quick events  your camera might not activate soon enough to capture a plate number.

Now is one of the best times to get into the market, once the Fed starts lowering rates that's going to bring more demand into the marketplace causing prices to increase at a faster pace again so if you get in now you capture that growth and get the opportunity to refi when rates are more favorable in a year or two.

But I captured equity at purchase then more quickly through value add then refinanced into long term loans before the balloon.

My grandmother, Virginia was a housewife and worked in a cannery from time to time and my grandfather was a chef at Original Joe’s and a butcher for Denver Meat.

We got wind of it through one of our Broker contacts.. the issue for the land owner is he had taken roughly the same option payments yearly 150k And now with the option failing he was going to have to capture all that income as earned income and pay tax.. ( which of course he is kind of like a lottery winner the 150k a year was always gone in 10 months) So he was in a potential bad spot with IRS and we were able to step in and take over the option for the same terms.

I get that monthly cash flow on the investment property isn’t the only factor and that real estate always goes up and now a days - going forward will probably just go up in a vertical line indefinitely, but if I don’t intend to sell the property due to tax purposes I wouldn’t be capturing the price appreciation, it would be the cash flow. idk, I’m probably overthinking this lol.