Charleston has a very active REI community and several meetup/networking events each month that are pure gold.

It's just a seller carry & the seller sells the note.

You can charge an increased deposit, pet rent, or require the tenant to carry pet insurance. 

Tim,My advice as a banker would be to do a cash out refinance and avoid carrying the Heloc.

Internet chatter is a good starting point but most of my investors say the gold is going deal and taking relationships offline. 

Even if you don't have the capital now, that is what I would call fool's gold.

Oh by the way, up until i started selling, i hadn't paid income taxes on any of the rental profits for almost 14 years and even after I started selling, my carry forward losses covered everything up until last year when they finall ran out.If you buy right, sfh rentals are the best long term investment you will ever make.

High inflation means that people will be looking for products that can store their wealth (aka "liquidity"), such as gold, cryptocurrency, or real estate.So why buy real estate during inflation?

Any excess is carried fwd as an NOL.

You made a great point that I find carries over here to the forums.