The drop and Swap is about all we use here due to the confiscatory tax rates based on sale price.

The best strategy I seem to have deployed so far was to contact all my current tenants and let them know I’d give them a cash referral fee of $250 for anyone they recommend to me that goes through the vetting process and successfully moves in.

Since you’re already networking and have some good realtor contacts, focus on narrowing down your investment strategy (like buy-and-hold or house hacking) and target markets with solid cash flow potential.

I'm not sure if you'll be able to find his contact information and I'm also not sure if I can share phone numbers on a thread so if you message me I'll connect you up.

In this case, you can use Rental Income from the units that you will not be living in and that income can count to help you qualify.FHA rates are going to be lower than conventional for you almost always, but FHA does have a 1.75% funding fee. 

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They work well in areas with steady rental demand like suburban neighborhoods or cities with strong job markets​​.Considerations: Your property management needs will be lower, but rents may rise more slowly over time compared to short-term options.Short-Term Rentals: High Risk, High RewardAdvantages: Short-term rentals can generate significantly higher nightly rates, especially in vacation destinations.

I wanted to help them out and minimize their loss and saw an opportunity to get a property slightly below market because of my commission savings, immediate mortgage and maintenance relief, in addition to keeping a lower short term interest rate How did you find this deal and how did you negotiate it?

For example, my bank will sign off on pretty much anything I want to buy with 10 percent down, with a fixed rate at prime, for 5 to 7 years, with a 30 year amortization schedule.

My clients who invest in Section 8 housing do so in 'not quite' transitioned communities but that have low crime rates.