Does anyone have any insight on paying down mortgages before finding a new home versus trying to focus on rapid growth?

Calculate not only the expense but the time it would take to make such repairs versus the money you will be getting back.If doing the repairs is basically a wash in value or minimal but it will take time you might be better off selling as-is now.

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I am relatively puzzled as a new investor whether I need to invest in single or multifamily homes. I would appreciate if someone would provide some insight to each category; like pros and cons for e...

While there you look at existing property management versus having interviews with a few others to see how they would save you money or run differently.

Although this next part is uncited, there’s a ton of search engine analytic data which indicates that website visitors are more likely to click on an ad showing a photo of a woman, versus a photo of a man.

However, there are now a handful of portfolio lenders willing to finance multiple properties, albeit at higher rates, to foreign nationals as they are asset-based loans versus being solely dependent on the financial strength of the borrower.  

They typically are more willing to work with people than the bigger chains, and have more leeway in their structuring.You can also sit down with the head mortgage officer from an institution, versus someone who can only follow the numbers in the book.

Duplex one goes vacant you have 50% occupancy versus 7% occupancy with a quad.

Foreclosures are a good way to go, I usually focus on REO's versus the auctions, but I do know people who have had success at the auctions.

I have found close to nothing out there, so I considered getting licensed as an MLO again, and maybe even opening a mortgage company again (owned one for 10 years), just to facilitate the compliance piece for the seller financers.My preferrences are to work for a company, so I can focus my attention in the area's I want to work the most versus a lot of my time taken up with the administration and compliance parts of the business.Does anyone know of lenders offering this much needed service?