We've never done real estate investing before, but are considering out-of-state turnkey properties (we're from the Seattle area, particularly bad for cash flow investments I believe) to diversify out of our current stock index fund only investments.Her parents & brother make less income, and have very little (to no) credit history.

Account ClosedYou can go to Federal Housing Finance Agency's site and look at their House Price Index Datasets.

I would look up how to use VLOOKUP/Index-Match, for how to compare lists. 

If this is a real scenario put your million in a diversified fund with low management fees (I like Vanguard's admiral S&P index fund) and collect long-term average returns of 70-80k a year without having to do any of the work.Or, even better, leverage your money and buy up $5M in real estate that cash flows well and also pays down your principal.

There will be a few other costs due to the distance, but I will be taking every precaution that the property will still cash flow at least $100.I'm confident, more confident than anybody my age putting their money into Index funds.

If looking to increase risk and achieve higher returns, perhaps index funds where zero work is required!

A 1/1 ARM with 5/5/9 caps, tied to the London Interbank Twerking Factor (LITF) in Beyonce's latest video as the index, will always be the most fabulous mortgage there is hands down....but seriously, you gotta give us more details for a serious answer.

Hey all;I was driving for dollars today and i noticed what seem to be a distressed property. i took down the address and went to my county's tax assessor's office website to see if its an absentee owner. it turns out that the owner had the same address. i thought it was a bit odd so i took the owner's name and did a public index search.I found the owner's name, the address and a master in equity judge.it was titled Bank of so and so as Trustee VS home owner.There is a lot of information on here that i do not but wish i understood.i have so many questions.What does it mean? 

So, if your HELOC is like those that I have, you have a "draw period" during which the monthly payment is interest only (IO) with the interest rate fluctuating based on some market index; at the end of the "draw period" the HELOC will no longer be IO - it will change to being fully amortized based on the outstanding balance left at the end of the draw period.

I started investing in some index funds (is it sacrilege to admit that in this forum?)