Not sure if you're looking only at real estate, but there's also a wider ecosystem of crowdfunding choices, including P2P loans (which arguably isn't crowdfunding per se, but certainly gets lumped in with other online alternative investing), equity crowdfunding (higher risk and much lower liquidity, but potentially greater returns if you're sufficiently diversified over time). 

As a very general rule, you can pick up good cash flowing properties at around $100k/door if you are looking outside of the class c neighborhoods or less expensive in those areas ($80-90k or so on the SE side of town).

So, a distinction should at least be understood that when a lender accepts payments from a buyer under an installment purchase agreement, that such acceptance is not a loan assumption per se, it is simply allowing a third party to make payments in the name of or for the benefit of the borrower but the loan remains in the original borrower's name, fully liable and without any requirement made by the lender to collect anything from that third party.So, as a new investor, when you walk into a bank and put your business plan on the loan officer's desk, look him in the eye and say, "I have a deal and I would like to assume theseller's loan" you'll at least know how silly you sound to the loan officer, what it is you are actually asking the bank to do!

We're still way below the historical average for interest rates in the US. https://fred.stlouisfed.org/se...It seems high coming off the record lows, but some markets still cash flow well.

Hello BP,Does anyone know of a good mold remediation company in SE Michigan (property is in Ferndale).

In the SE Atlanta area.

I use a great CPA in SE Tyler.

I enjoy designing things on the computer, but I don't really want to do graphic design, per se.

You don't want to breathe ozone at high concentration as it'll irritate your throat and nose, but it isn't "poisonous" per se.

I bought mine in 2001 and my cash flow number is great. so there is not an average or above average cash flow per se. in core areas such as Bellevue, Queen Anne, capitol hill you get highest rent but you also pay a lot more for the property so your cash flow is negative unless you pay a lot for down payment.