Over the last (3) years I have seen some extreme cases of expedited equity where an investor buys an older home or "Ugly Inventory" and then bats clean up on the ARV in 12 months.To give you an example I helped an investor refinance her home in 2023 pull cash out to buy a $65K home all cash.

That might be especially attractive to folks who want to shed the clothes they wear at work to keep their living space more clean.

HELOANThis takes second position and is a closed end loan, meaning it's given as a lump sum similarly to a "regular" mortgage.

Real estate is too much work to not be getting absolutely killer deals (and there's not that many available right now).rental vs adu , rental always wins because gross PPSF-appraisal/rent of ADU is less than PPSF-for-rent for regular rent.and with the available of homes already has converted room (and ADU) makes building adu is a moot point.i would just even buy SF with 6-7 rooms 

While we didn’t need significant updates, our team focused on cleaning, staging, and marketing to highlight the home's features.

Instead, there should be dollar amounts assigned to specific events, i.e. demolition complete with full haul off, floors broom cleaned, no nails left in studs or subfloors $1,500.Plumbing rough in complete and rough in inspection passed: $4000Final plumbing completed $5000I am clearly making up dollar amounts, but look for these types of bids on large projects.  

Trash cleans you know. 

I'd much prefer to put $60K on a down payment and closing costs so I have $50K to fix it up.So a couple of questions: 1) Am I mistaken in thinking those kind of lower down payment products are out there for regular folks like us? 

Make sure everyone knows a cleaning schedule, expectation for common areas, how are you splitting utilities, guest policy, etc. 

There are posts seeking information on Roofstock regularly and I know that Bigger Pockets was an invaluable resource to me prior to purchasing my first property and continues to be so sharing my own experiences is a way for me to pay it forward.