Your MBA should prove a useful tool for you to properly assess market factors.

Unpaid property taxes, attachments, assessments, judgments, IRS liens, watch out for all of these.

Looks like their variable rates just went up a bit since I last checked:Primary residence: https://www.americafirst.com/loans/home-equity-loa...Investment properties: https://www.americafirst.com/loans/home-equity-loa...If you use the county's assessed value of the property for the LTV calculations (found online), you don't need to pay for appraisal.

In fact, the city assesses $0 for my land value, and the total assessment is all classified as building.

I have a couple rentals that are in a higher tax rate area but my particular properties assessed value are not high so my ROI is good.  

Have the current landlord go thru each unit and assess the damages.

One unexpected or arbitrary assessment and whoosh!

Also DC has a high transfer tax....but a lower assessment rate.

They will not accept the county's annual assessment that also lists what new property taxes I will owe.

I'm also interested in multi-family, but have not dipped into that pool yet.I've been assessing my investments, and I feel I need to turn up my real estate investing.