Of course, the differential in return needs to be meaningful to compensate for the additional risk of a stake in a flip transaction and the tax filing overhead.  

The end goal is to have a substantial amount of passive income as well as build equity, to have additional security for my family in case something were to ever happen to myself or my job.  

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I want to make sure the tenants get their deposits back in addition to a sum to leave the property in 30 days.

Also am interested in uniforming community development of areas that with mixed style, price, and age of the housing. 

The additional amount could be due to the lack of payments, legal fees, a possible refinance, and/or home equity loan.

I am looking to rent a place, it seems nice except three thingsthey are ranch style apartments. they have a gate in front of the main entrance, and you're responsible for the door if anything happens to it. for some reason they won't fix it. it actually looks like this but a wooden door in front of the main doorif i take the door down, how concerned should I be about people stealing stuff. if i had a lawn mower or something, they would have to come in the opening and take stuffi saw a report online about some guy that was looking in someones windows at the complex across the street. i dont know how long ago it was. i was looking online again but coudlnt find it. the one im staying at seems fine, how concerned should I be able the ones across from me?

Some additional info that I hope addresses some of the questions:@Cory LaChance I actually refinanced under the 3-month mark (see the timing listed on my original post). 

In addition, if you can buy a property under market, or with an opportunity to add value (even if it's just paint and landscaping), you then have the ability to give your investing a boost when you either raise the rents because you have a higher class property and/or pull out some equity to invest in another property.  

I have experience in processing loans in addition to buying and selling residential properties.