In some cases, after running the numbers, I’ve even faced potential negative returns, causing me to miss out on promising deals here in South Florida.That brings me to my question: I currently own two homes—one is my primary residence, and the other is a rental property.

First off I always question statistics when there is no possible way to gather the data for the referenced statistic.  

When including maintenance/cap ex, vacancy, pm, misc he will have little, and possibly negative, cash flow.if he invested almost $250k to add less than $150k of value (assume some of the current value came from the home appreciation), there is no cash flow until the initial negative equity position is recovered.  

I recommend searching "arbitrage" here and reading any/all of the hundreds of general threads about negative elements of arbitrage.

I will provide some thoughts on the San Diego purchase- virtually all high LTV mls purchases since rates started to hike have negative cash flow at purchase- historically great appreciation- historically great rent growth but recently flattening- prop 13 is great benefit for long holds- laws keep getting less LL friendly.

I'm surprised you're still hearing negative things about it considering there's been so much positive press and chatter lately.

Most negative comments come from competitors, those nitpicking minor issues, or people who haven’t worked with the company at all.

Also, focus on 2 years of job/income stability.Class D Properties:Cashflow vs Appreciation: Typically, all cashflow with little, maybe even negative, relative rent & value appreciationVacancy Est: 20%+ should be used to cover nonpayment, evictions & damages.Tenant Pool: majority will have FICO scores under 560 (almost 30% probability of default), little to no good tradelines, lots of collections & chargeoffs, recent evictions.

Nothing else.Every other platform doesn't have the reach that the 2 big ones have and in some cases are very owner negative.

The one who bragged about buying houses with negative equity, cause he was buying sub2. https://www.biggerpockets.com/forums/61/topics/1190869-im-bu...Okay, wasn’t following prior threads.It seems like there were a few ways around this.1.