I like to see $150-200/unit/month cash flow and CoC ROI in the mid-teens or better.

As a young adult, my college plans were made as a precaution by my parents. I’m deeply interested in real estate and plan to create an automated business by 30 doing flips for down payments on rentals. My question is,...

Hello all!  My wife and I have been taking care of my nephews since they were Freshmen and Sophomores in high school.  When the oldest one graduated last year, he stayed with us because he wasn’t sure what he wanted t...

.); the answer pre-supposes that the Recession we already are in, by 2020, that if its hits harder than the Recession of 2009-2010, that hitting harder would suggest unemployment levels, nearing 20%, while still in the teens.

This hasn't stopped homebuyers for a number of reasons, a big one being that mortgage rates have been in the 3s and 4s for much of this boom time, whereas rates were in the teens in the 80s.

FREAK OUT FREAK OUT FREAK OUT...oh wait it's over.Since the virus started, more people have died in car accidents, from heart attacks, from smoking, from obesity, from being murdered by the chinese government, getting hit by a bus, getting hit by falling coconuts, and thousands of other things nobody ever worries about.I know you're trying to be controversial or some kind of reality star here, but you're just plain wrong.SARS killed 800 people total, maybe a handful in the US.COVID has already killed, not infected, over 15,000 people worldwide and the peak of cases has not even begun in the US, nor has the peak ended in Europe. 

I have dreamed of owning real estate since I was a teen, and never really knew where to go to begin. 

Not the best positive cash flows and not as spectacular of return as reno-refi ideas but the total return projection seems pretty good in the low to mid-teens, relative to the work required. 

Yes - you are selling high so you are going to buy high but given the fact that you have $125-150k of equity and down payment money in the deal, you can easily use that money and purchase a 3-4 unit in the secondary B class markets of Boston such as Framingham, Lowell, North Attleboro for $650-750 with income that hits the 1% rule and with cash on cash returns in the teens. 

It was only 4 teens around the same age though.  7 to 19 is crazy!