Many of them are going to get royally screwed..

If a title company is not familiar with the quirks of Baltimore city, your deal may get delayed or tatally screwed up.

In practice, knowing how to vet sydicators and ensure they are not screwing you takes a lot of time. almost as long as buying your own deal.

And here you are forced to walk through a dark ally and you see at the end of that ally a group of rowdy thugs being all crazy.So are you going to say.. well oh bother, I am so screwed I HAVE to walk down that alley to go home.

There will probably still be a time during a major remodel (if you tear it down to studs.) they are still at risk of getting screwed. 

If you have a genuine answer for that I am curious to hear. this^^^ if you buy a property you are happy in and can comfortably afford thats fantasic, if it happens to be a good investment as well even better, if you buy an investment property to live in and you don't like living there & the investment goes south, both strong possiblities in baltimore multi family and you've exhausted your life saving's you are triple screwed.

Can't imagine why they'd want to screw the investor so bad.

However the land value is passed on in the overall value and the finishes is only a small percentage higher than Home Depot quality.Where I am seeing some flippers screw up is the quality of the work is horrible and clients are noticing.

So the law completely screws up rent to income ratios.

Builder ends up screwing us over and we are out $250k which we are in the process of trying to get back.In the meantime, I'm trying to get a private or hard money loan to finish the buildsCurrent mortgage 273,000Rehab 1 - 150,000Rehab 2 - 150,000Current value for both places approx $350,000ARV $1,000,000 for bothPlan is to refinance and hold as STRI feel that these numbers are reasonable - am I missing something?