The cash-on-cash return and appreciation are steady.You should select a market that will meet your investment goals.While there are numerous benefits to long distance real estate investing, there are some potential drawbacks as well.

In the commercial version of DSCR, many more expenses are considered and the taxes and insurance are netted out of the numerator.

They list their house at a price an "appraisal" thinks the home is worth (this is also numer you base your equity on", but they get no offers at this price level (buyers simply can't afford the payment) because rates are above 7%.

We have helped people househack numerous times in Manchester and Nashua.

All in baby, but it's scary AF I wrote a post on this a few days ago, https://www.biggerpockets.com/...I've said this numerous times on here, but make sure you are manually excluding the cleaning fee from AirDNA (they include this in the projection.)

But there are numerous ways to mitigate those time frames. 

Yes, they are legal but option contracts over 180 days become executory contracts and are then subject numerous additional requirements, and sellers using this strategy have serious liability should they circumvent any of these requirements.

If you are still interested in how I went about the research and where I am at in terms of becoming a real estate investor, please read on.First of all, for those who don’t know who I am, I would like to give you my current situation regarding the real estate investing journey.Current situationI am currently working as a full-time engineer, and in fact, I am typing this in a hotel room before attending a shock and vibration test for one of the suppliers in Long Island, NY (sorry this is not relevant information for real estate).

You have to be able to get them to open up so that you uncover what's going on with their situation and the property, figure out their wants, and present why working with you on a rent to own deal is a good idea.I've been surprised numerous times in the past... 

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