Even if you have a higher return in the stock market, you'd be doing it with a lower basis after tax and it will take a long while to recoup from that. 

They are lower than what I’ve been setting and getting. 

Using a HELOC can provide you with the necessary capital at a lower interest rate to fund your next projects without leaning too heavily on hard money lenders, which can eat into your profits.Here are a some actors that you would want to consider:1.

I agree that efficiency is a huge part of that equation, and the more efficient the PMC, the more they can stay profitable with lower fee structures.  

I think the engineering issues on them have been resolved.I've used a number of different brands (lower price point) and haven't had issues with any of them.

There's a few different ways to focus on a lower rate such as with house hacking and making the investment your primary residence, requesting a significant closing credit from the sellers for standard rate buy-downs (which I've had great success with recently), or utilizing lenders who offer short term rate lowering solutions such as 2-1 rate buy downs (again, ideally paid for by the sellers).

This likely will result in a lower unit value than if value was derived from comps (especially seeing commercial MF values have fallen in recent times).Good luck

Rentals also build equity through tenant payments and appreciation, with profits taxed at lower long-term capital gains rates when sold.

Shortly after the crash my tenants learned that condo developers were renting out luxury apartments in the area for around the same rents I was charging so I was forced to lower rents. 1200/apt 2 1050/apt3. 

You only need to do the first payment line, then replicate, and make some minor adjustments to the first payment which gets values from the entry fields in the summary (header).