the old saying “ you can’t get blood from a turnip “ applies here .

It still IS the best method whether or not you can do it or not.If we were talking about "what the best strategy is for YOU, or HIM or Albert there in the corner", then YES sure, those things play their part.But if you are going to ask which fruit has the highest sugar content the answer will be a Mango (I think?)

Will you pretty please with sugar on top please stop spreading this news that your inefficient no leverage way of investing is without drawbacks.  

Enterprising blood-sucking-leaches, er, I mean lawyers, will search the public records looking for people who own multiple properties, and then find a reason to sue them. 

Check into the area around Sugar Mountain in NC.

@Chuy GonzalezI am 1 for 1 getting burned by section 8 tenant costing me $7000 total with lesson learned. 12 years and first bad blood bath

OMG - this thread is like giving sugar to a toddler!

The listing agent you need to be aware of is the one who smells blood when a buyer submits an offer on behalf of themselves, because they know multiple ways to take advantage of that buyer without them ever even knowing it.

If prices are too high now, you could either hoard the cash and wait for blood in the streets during the next downturn, or dump that cash into your highest-cost (ie, interest rate) mortgage, and then pull a HELOC on that so you can deploy the cash when it IS affordable again.

But it works, simplified, like if you owed $500 to CA but paid state XX $300, then you only have to pay CA the $200 difference.CA may not be able to get blood from a turnip, but they will suck that turnip dry before they let it go.Likewise if you, say, play professional sports for a team in state XX, live in state XX, make $20,000,000 a year, play 1 out of 20 games in CA, they want that 1/20th of that two million taxed in CA...but they will give a credit for the taxes you paid in state XX according to the interstate agreement.