RE investors should ask the agent your working with up front if they know if their will be seasoning issues or affidavits involved as you may not get your EMD returned.Also if there are no lender requirements how can a lender influence/tell you what you can & cannot do with your purchase?

Getting Cash Buyers and owner financing Buyers is not that hard.Without private lender money and joint venture money you really can't do real estateGoogle "TRUST.ETC private lender concept"Buy the book by Patrick Rice on Amazon called "iRA Wealth"Center of influence marketing works well, I hand that book  to CPAs and financial plannersYou can use that book to create a PowerPoint presentationBe careful of SEC rules on marketing a securityOne my favorite sayings is, "don't diversify your investments and Wall Street, diversify by having some money in Wall Street and some money in Main Street, do you want something crazy issue in China or the price of oil to drop your mutual funds by 20%? 

@Alex PeauOn a sub-2, their debt ratio will be affected, because the loan is still under their name even though they are not on title.The seller's overall financial picture will greatly influence their ability to qualify for owner occupied traditional bank financing on their next home.This is a very frank conversation you must have with the seller so that they know exactly what the ramifications could be.If you are planning on flipping the property then the sub2 loan gets paid off anyway.The longer you hold the property & the underlying loan stays open, the more risk there is for things to happen (lender calling loan, borrower BK, etc)I buy sub2 on both NOO & Owner Occupied.

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Also, how much of the reassessed value is typically based on the recent sales price for a specific property vs. influenced by values of other similar buildings in the neighborhood?  

Hi All -When looking at potential residential (SFR and Multifamily) investment properties, how do window A/C units influence your opinion? 

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I would first and foremost learn how to be a people person.... read the book “how to win friends and influence people” then start networking.  

I hadn't considered that temporary influence until Scott asked why Tomahawk.

The second point, if you have investment properties with 4 doors or more, then the rents you can earn can influence the value of the property and thus the equity, and thus BRRRR methods or any other flip and sell methods.