If/when interest rates rise all of a sudden the cash on cash return on a lot of these homes will become less exciting as people will start to wonder why they are dealing with a property half way across the country when they can achieve similar returns in the capital markets.

first one was at 53. second was 80. third was 75. since my full time job takes so much work and i dont like to pay contractors for things i can do myself, i really go after great houses that dont come by often. in my city you can't find anything below 50 (and that's short sale). a dump is around 60. suddenly at 69.9 and above, you can get houses that with just 5-8k worth of work, you have an amazing 1050sq ft house.

Now, you close your 26th deal, and suddenly, you get a letter from "the commission", that through an audit of the title company you used, we noticed a pattern that you received a "fee" on each of 25 HUD Closing Statements and;7.

You probably know better than I, but I have the impression that a lot of young guys enlist when they are 18 and get hit with easy credit card applications and suddenly think they should be living like free-spending grown ups.

So I'm typing away and suddenly sense something is right there, right around the corner...then I hear leaves crunching.

With a condo building, you can't easily evaluate the condition of the roof, for example, so the sudden special assessment can be a unexpected surprise.I don't buy either the 1% or 2% rules.

I don't understand why all of a sudden you have decided that he will change and start to cheat you now.

So at this point, the fiancé is taking an early leave due to complications with her pregnancy & supposedly he is still not working, but he DOES attend football practice and they are coming at me from the following angle: they can’t pay the rent, however there are things I still haven’t fixed and they add on a new issue: the central air unit does not work all of a sudden at all!

If cap rates go to 10, from 4, because of a surge in interest rates then paper net worth will plummet.Right now working on turning RE investments into more actively managed and profitable (improvements and rent increases) business assets.

"Number of people staying in the apartment" because a woman got married and had a baby, and all of a sudden they have to vacate by the end of Friday?