We need that 90% because that's who rents our properties :)Great way to put it.Simple disciplines done everyday in rei compound to much over time.

Hello All,i am a young aspiring new to this site and the world of REI in general. i have always looked to real estate as an abstract means to an end using buy and holds to finance a modest early retirement.i had believed to do well i needed to live below my means and work a w-2 long enough to buy a property outright. realizing the futility of wages - inflation i saw i would never get there in time to realize compounding interest. 

:Am about to bid on a project larger than my capacity, If I'm interpreting this correctly it sounds like this project is a bit of a stretch for your current bandwidth, if not beyond the ability of your current organization.As an owner, and with my experience with GC's, if a project is larger than what they can handle I would hope there would be a professional courtesy to simply bow out and say you're not able to fulfill the requirements of the project and give it to another group who can do the job to the specs within the budget and allotted time. 

Any reader of the Compound Effect will see the power and value of small increases in rent.  

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Not sure that you should, but you could ... personally, I'd rather leave it in there to compound tax free for as long as I could.

In the case of both PLOC's and HELOC's, even if you got a higher interest rate (remember we're talking simple interest) it blows even the lowest mortgage rates (compound interest) out of the water.

Leveraging investor funds is always a good idea and I know it works - hence this post - but I can attest to the fact that having your own cash is golden, and compounding your investments is even better - buy-fix-sell 1, buy-fix-sell 2, buy-fix-sell 4, etc.  

I hinted at it before but the tax benefits of real estate can compound for you over time as well and again here is where your age is your advantage.

Trying to do it from thousands of miles away only compounds problems ... great cash flow for his contractors, realtors, and property managers, but not so much for him.