And if you do hit a personal hiccup and have to sell, odds are it will be to another investor that wants a "deal" so it will be tougher to extract (what you think of) full value for the property.  

So just wanted to post this here - so people using this site realize that there's so many people in so many geographies that you can get really specific and useful help that meaningfully can impact your business - if you just put it out there on the forums!

I have a ~$10k cushion and now thinking about how I can use that cash flow in a more meaningful way.

In case anybody is wondering when Bill's comment here might be meaningful, think about areas with rent control in effect, the next of kin will definitely be wanting to have a unit with cheap rent.

Etc.I'm assuming that I should model the deal as 100% financed at the ARV at 5.5% interest, to test the asset's ability to cash flow w/o including the emphasis of my own equity (which I'm trying to extract, after all).Thanks in advance!

Like black or Latino activists who insist that a particular congressional district should be represented by one of their own, the disgruntled white working-class, non-college-educated voters might be demanding that their majority status still translate into something at least symbolically meaningful to them.But that doesn't make it right.

Once locked up, you can feel comfortable with discussing all of the property details.You really can't do it any other way, because nobody is going to buy a property that they can't look at/get any meaningful information on.Make sense?

I used the appreciation in my primary residence and dove deep once I had the financial strength to make a meaningful purchase.Replacing $200k of income is pretty large gap to fill. 

Will, Much better. 2 extractions, 2 different implants and a bone graft to prepare for another tooth implant.

Now you have cash into the deal, so a "cash on cash" return becomes meaningful.