they dig down to more solid or heavily compacted ground.  

The cost of the house is NOT proportional to the rent you will get. 

Additionally, faster principal pay down early in a mortgage (when payments carry the highest proportion of interest) will result in a greater reduction of your overall borrowing costs than later in the mortgage (when payments are mostly principal).In our initial forays into U.S.A. real estate and mortgages, we've been a little disheartened by the offering of variable rate mortgages (ARMs in U.S.A. parlance) and the restriction of repayment options.  

If the tenants move out, you could advertise to 'green' tenants who will attempt to use less electricity, water, gas, and trash.http://www.homedepot.com/p/StoreBound-Laundry-Pod-Non-Electrical-Compact-Portable-Washer-in-Green-LP001GRN/205034847?

I took a look at the zoning map for that area and it's all zoned CN, or compact neighborhood.

Yes, all the time and the reasons for it vary as much as the quality of tenants that you will be inheriting, which by the way, from my experience is directly proportional to how good/bad the previous owners accounting was.

My strategy is to get out of debt by wholesaling and then building beautiful apartment complexes near the areas that have been gentrified.I know that my amount of deals is proportional to my leads and my strategy for leads is to have a squeeze page in a FB page but I need help starting out the website!

As long as the JV agreement is binding him to any losses in the proportion stated in  our agreement, I'm good to go.Thank you so much!! 

I think you guys might be blowing this whole birddog thing out of proportion.

The only way that I know to do that is to use the 45% to 50% expense number.Yes, I fully understand that maintenance costs are lower as a proportion of gross rents in high priced rentals like LA.