Neutral colors work well, and energy-efficient upgrades not only attract buyers but can also qualify for tax benefits.

You might go cashflow neutral or even negative on the properties, but could probably walk away with $50k to $100k in cash.

So, even as the Fed lowers the Federal Funds rate, and as we see the spread between the 10-year treasury yield and the 30 year mortgage rate shrink, upward pressure on the 10-year from longer-term foundational pressures will see mortgage rates tick up or or at least hold steady.While this is neutral/slightly negative news for home buyers, it is very bad news indeed for our friends in the commercial real estate world, who are really seeing the best case scenario for the 10-year right now.

Currently our government and other institutions pretend to be neutral but everything from Taylor Swift to cat sweatshirts says that is not the case.I know your a reasonable/practical guy genuinely curious how you answer this. 

well very good TRUST but VERIFY with a neutral third party.. hire your own inspector.. like banks do.. any thing less and history has proven you MAY end up not to happy.

For my personal properties, I design the mortgages so that I'm just above cash flow neutral. 5% of the gross income is a good number I shoot for above neutral.

The concept discussed likely assumes that you’re building equity through appreciation or loan pay-down, while any cash flow is minimal or neutral.

-Are certain student rental markets bullish/neutral/bearish?

All were going to be either cash flow neutral or negative cash flow.

If I could find something that was close to cash flow neutral..