Quote from @Kerlous Tadres: Quote from @Michelle Howey: Hello everyone,I’m currently exploring ways to find off-market real estate deals and would love to get some advice from this knowledgeable community.What strategies or tools have you found most effective in identifying off-market properties?

I would definitely reconsider buying into a property that will have a negative cash flow.

This house-hack will be a negative cash flow while I live in it, fix it up, etc. 

@John Paul Palace their bggest challenge is finding competent PMCs to recommend to their clients.That's what most of the negative feedback here on BP is about them - which is UNFAIR as they're selling a rental property, NOT PMC services.Recommend you do your own due diligence on PMCs before just going with their recommendation.

The main problem with negative cashflow properties is this. 

Also, focus on 2 years of job/income stability.Class D Properties:Cashflow vs Appreciation: Typically, all cashflow with little, maybe even negative, relative rent & value appreciationVacancy Est: 20%+ should be used to cover nonpayment, evictions & damages.Tenant Pool: majority will have FICO scores under 560 (almost 30% probability of default), little to no good tradelines, lots of collections & chargeoffs, recent evictions.

the value added versus cost to add, especially in single family zoned areas, typically results in a large negative initial position.  

Afraid of secondary effects, both Fannie and Freddie remain in conservatorship today.What specifically did they do wrong?

I also usually compound the return by reinvesting my payments, so the present 12% fund effectively returns 14.38% which is pretty awesome.  

Quote from @Robel Nessro: How is President Trump going to effect the Real Estate Industry, will it benefit the investors or impact the market and investors?