Hi Anthony, I live in Puerto Rico and I got to tell you that duplex properties down here are not quite the best investment unless you want it for personal use or buy for rent.

The rates are always going to be different between anything that is for personal use and anything that is considered purely investment.

We can't tell who the person is that's offering this to you.  

I think what should happen is that whoever they got it from should be able to email it to that person - so if I applied at trans Union within their system I can add who to send too and it would go to themI wouldn’t trust it coming from someone.

I’m basing that more on things like W2’s being issued by a business versus what was reported by the person who received it - but I imagine it extends to all types of transactions.you are flirting with danger though.  

Cook 3 Questions: 1) Do you own & operate STRs personally?

When I first started doing research I was looking for the perfect platform where I was really over architecting my personal need.  

Even if it's only available for personal residences I'm curious if some of the veteran loans are better than what you could typically get on the open market. 

Investing for cash flow in my mind is fantastic, I just want that perspective from a more seasoned person than myself as it pertains to the long term. 

Wall Street thought we were going to get six- eight rate reductions this year we’ve seen none so far and stagflation is setting in , the Fed is trapped , if they reduce rates now , inflation could catch on fire if they increase them again too much something in the economy will break I think we’re in this holding pattern for one to two years personally, I don’t claim to be a macro economic expert, but I do study it quite a bit and I’m not counting on or expecting rates to come down anytime soon and even if they do, they’ll just be small quarter-point rate hikes not enough to make a huge difference in cashflow, so ..I either hold and if they do decrease rates, there will  probably be another asset inflation bubble, which will increase my appreciation, or my cell and deploy the capital more wisely and look for some market softening and buy a good deal