@Alex HafnerTo pick up on how to invest in real estate, you might want to watch some YouTube channels like Meet Kevin, Graham Stephan, BiggerPockets, Matt McKeever, Coach Carson, Morris Invest, Investment Joy, and Joe McCall.

It also cracks me up that Flint is on this list but not Detroit.Maybe they're filtering purely by numbers with no regard to the quality of the city/area?

I do not want to live in the property I buy, just purely for renting.

NOTHING ELSE occupies their interest in the same way.So this is an informal poll: does anyone here in the BP forums do real estate purely on the side and doesn't wish they did it full-time?

If a toilet runs at full pressure, the tenant is going to call you sooner than later from the sheer racket it's making.If you are purely looking for leaks, you will spend significant sums of money to save yourself very little money in the long run. 

I find is so much joy when I find my clients great deals.

One thing I run into often are borrowers who are looking for loans based purely on the After Repair Value of a Fix and Flip investment.

Easily add on another 20k - 30k in expenses for the year and now your outgoing is at 68k -78k with purely rough numbers before you break even.  

One piece here is that yes you can potentially find buyers that will have a premium for successful track record + even furnishings, listings, review - but important to remember that there won't be a premium assessed by the lender in almost all situations if the buyer is using financing to acquire - their loan will be based on the pure real estate value even if they are paying more - just a tip to keep clarified so no surprises that can throw off deals

We are always concerned with ‘risk adjusted’ return, rather than pure LOI.