In reality, finding tenants is quite easy, especially if you follow these steps to reduce your risk of vacancy: Living in a growing city in a desirable location increases your chances of finding tenants.

I would also account for a % increase in expenses per year. 5.

As rents increase over the years, your cashflow will soon become positive while you ride the wave of inflation and appreciation! 

Hi ST King,The price increases with insurance and taxes has certainly cut back our cash flow on many of our properties, but fortunately rents and rental demand have been pretty strong going into 2024.

If it was up to me I would just given the whole thing away and forgot about it but my wife, thankfully, has the brains to think logically and not give up everything we've worked for.We were pretty hesistant to lead Travis on with big expectations so we started the partnership with $1,000 buy-in and 5% ownership with the promise of being able to increase the partnership in time.

As pointed out already, when you get above 8 to 10 properties a lot of insurers do not insure and the premium increases about 4x to 5x for the ones who will write a policy.  

@Jeff S.You will probably end up right around the same place… lots of studies on returns of real estate vs stocks and the returns are almost identicalWhere real estate investors of course can increase it is if they are more active in investing

With historic interest rate increases by the Federal Reserve, many predicted doom and gloom for the industry.

I've also considered properties where I could create two units to increase my revenue that way, but those types of properties are very expensive here. 

The shorter the prepayment term has an impact on increasing the rate.4.