We don't have that policy and I don't ever tell an applicant they can't apply I just make sure that there are multiple correspondences documenting our screening criteria.

I have successfully defended multiple clients in this situation.Once again: Don is claiming his deduction correctly, and I am breaking the rules.

A solid property management team (or maybe multiple PMs if your portfolio is large enough) is a must for out of state investing.

Other times you make multiple mistakes and your investment goes up anyway. 

You have to do some more research.Are you saying 200k in cash so you could spread that out among multiple downpayments or 200k via a loan?

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So when I get multiple bids and one is significantly lower, I don't think of them as a deal.

I should have driven this hood at multiple hours of the day before I bought.

I even offered to let the seller out of the deal, multiple times, but he wanted to press on and just get it done.

He is a busy guy but he is very knowledgeable and could probably help you out with multiple if not all of these things.