I ended up locking in a 6% fixed rate and I'm glad I did because my interest rate would have doubled if I went with a HELOC.

Do you keep it on your windshield in plain site or locked away in a vault?

The owner I know uses a local handyman service they've built a relationship with to handle one-off issues that come up and perform regular maintenance, and it sounds like you've already got cleaning locked down. 

You may need to spend a few hundred dollars to get a lender name change if the new lender requires that, but depending on when you rate locked you may still end up saving money with a new lower rate.

Definitely would love to bend your ear a bit. 

From there, if you can find the house that needs basic rehab and lock it up for around 50-60% of that ARV, then you’ll do just fine most the time.  

And you have to live in the same unit as the guest, bedroom doors cannot have outside locks, and you can host at most 2 guests at a time.

I have had to replace door locks when people kept jamming the wrong key in.

Overpaying now means locking up more capital and risking returns that don’t justify the investment.

Recently, I started locking down a triple dip strategy having investors buy the mobile homes for the spaces.1.