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As you grow your portfolio, keep an eye out for lenders who offer low down payment options for investors or those that allow leveraging the equity from your existing properties to fund new ones. 

Safe to say that many punters who invested in low cap rate syndication deals, especially during the peak of the hype, are getting schlonged right now. 

The Highway 64 property presented a great opportunity due to its low acquisition cost and potential for substantial value increase.

Ask your contractor to walk the property with you if they're available during the showing, or at least send them the photos and information that you received from the wholesaler to get their opinion.In Pittsburgh a light or cosmetic renovation is about $20k, medium is $50k, and a full gut is $100k.

Second, the insurance is $1.5k which seems to be low as well. 

If you are skilled in each of the areas above, and you have enough in reserves to cover the costs of when things do not go as planned, then you can likely attract money from private money lenders who want to get a return on their money and they see lending to you as a low risk way of earning a better return than in the other passive investing options they have. 

I would tell people today that if you buy a primary residence expect to stay in that home for atleast five years, especially with a FHA loan which has lower down payment as the current forecasts for home appreciation or very low which with closing costs on the buy and sell, it will take several years to have equity in the property and enough to be able to sell, so that is something also to consider.

And like many other cities, vacancy rates are still low, lots of demand for housing of all types.  

now if you could get a seller to be the bank I get that you could smoke and mirror those deals.. but i would think those would be picked over low value or properties in the worst areas of town etc..