You can still find homes in these markets, among others, that are priced between $160k to $275k that still provide passive income, allowing your residents to pay down your mortgage, cover your other expenses and still have excess money to either save in an account for future investing or pay down your existing mortgage faster. 

Purchase price: $130,000 Cash invested: $9,000 Sale price: $185,000 I did not have the knowledge then to keep the property and pull money out to complete renovations to another property we purchased a year after this one that required a complete overhaul.

Until robots can actually go to the property, go inside and see it, touch it, smell it etc. there will be risk of estimates being way off and losing money as an investor if you rely on an app.

Pretty easy to make 2% or more when you're spending that kind of money.

With companies pouring money into EV and semiconductor production, job growth is picking up, which will only increase demand for housing in the long run.

The biggest question you need to ask yourself is if you are doing this to afford a property you otherwise couldn’t afford or to save money period, that will lead to very different conclusions about where/if to buy. 

We had a plan to build a large real estate portfolio and then sell it in five years and divide the money.

Do the cold calling yourself and that is where the true magic is as you can see with @Peter Tverdov success at doing it and getting a ton of money out of those conversations. 

If we move forward with transferring the deed, we would like a way to guarantee to my father and my sister: a) some return from investments made with money taken out of the house, and b) equal shares in the house if we sell in the future, or a buyout path for either of them.3.

Or is the money better spent elevating the master experience overall?