On the other hand, there’s a part of me that wants to just keep slow and steady without leveraging more debt and buy properties as I can save a 20% down payments.

She is telling me that it is a slow market.

Quote from @Tyler Tomas: Keep in mind your equity is not a savings account from which you can withdraw for free.

The number of issues is so large I can't concisely describe them all now, but to summarize, Latchel is exceedingly slow to respond to all maintenance requests, including emergencies, and basically fails to communicate any information regarding the status of repairs.

“Take a slow breath,” Torres told her.

If the market slows down even just a little...catches a tiny little cold...you will lose all your money and the lender will likely take a loss also.I ran a distressed debt fund for 5 years, DO Income Fund, and we had hard limits when buying distressed debt.

From what I've heard, peer-to-peer lending platorms can offer decent returns and the ability to withdraw funds relatively quickly if needed.Personally, I've found that investing in short-term real estate projects can be a sweet spot.

Landlord’s only option to collect funds for damages is to take tenants to court.More and more tenants are only having a portion of their rent covered by S8, so landlords need to still screen S8 applicants for portion they must pay.Landlord cannot charge S8 tenants a portion of shared utilities – which can lead to the infamous tales of tenant retaliation against landlord by blasting heat on high with open windows during winter.S8 caseworker response times can be very slow, as they are usually overworked & underpaid.Again, overall it’s a pretty good deal for a landlord that does some decent screening.Exposing Section 8 Housing | Tenants From hell 243 - YouTubeLiberals Blame this Eviction on Landlord Despite the Before & After Footage | Tenants From Hell 241 - YouTubeMy first Baltimore buy & hold investment - SOLD (Lessons learned) (biggerpockets.com)Besides MANY self-labeled "gurus" exaggerating their success, many of them just supply readily available info.If you're too busy to find the info and are willing to pay for it, no problem as you accept their time vs money solution.REGARDING S8 GURU ISSUES SPECIFICALLYMost of them don't share all the facts about how Section 8 actually works.They claim you can get HIGHER rent from S8 tenants vs private-paying tenants.Why would the government allow our tax dollars to be spent this way?

Let me help you start or continue to build your port folio in a market that doesn't appear to be leaving or even slowing down any time soon.

Some times in a slow market and we need to attract tenant to sign a lease, we throw in some of these items because the cost of individual items is less than we lowering the rent by even $50 a month ($600 a year).