To conclude that one market is a better investment opportunity than another simply because it has a higher rent to value ratio fails to address how factors - like the need for management, occupancy, property taxes, special assessments, and a plethora of others - ultimately effect how that ratio to translate in to return.To say that "The high purchase IS the problem.

Besides others might be able to copy/paste into google and translate(Thank You Google) lol.

Some of which may alter the terms of the loan.

I’m not sure how that translates into using it for a primary residence.

im merely translating what everyone here means to say, but theyre just too polite and politically correct to say it in the way that i said itits all up to you what you want to do. i understand youre just here to ask for other people's opinions, and well, im here to give mine. if you dont want these opinions, them simply dont ask for them.this woman is talking about having you buy the things she wants for herself (updates to house), and having you pay for them just because "youre her boyfriend". she doesnt appear to have an income yet. shes racked up tons of debt in student loans, and the very job shes going to classes for pays a notoriously low amount of money. from what it sounds like, this is the definition of entitlement and stupidity. i would feel pretty selfish if i were to even mention something as ridiculous as that, and yet im earning nothing. so suddenly im the bad guy simply warning you about this woman?

i recently bought a property thru auction.com. no bad experiences at all. well, i can;t say that totally, there were a couple of hidden fees but nothing that put us into the red area. it is an absolute must to gain access to the house. in many of these houses, you can have your realtor get you inside, as log as they are unoccupied and they have a lock box on the door. spend as much time on looking the place over as you can. i am a professional home inspector and know what i am looking at, so doing a detailed look over is easy for me. i do not know about other home inspectors, but i will look over a property with a perspective buyer for a small fee, usually $100. its not a complete inspection with book and everything as a total inspection would be, but if i see an area of trouble, i will alert my client. maybe you can find an inspector in your area to do the same. as far as the bid increments on auction.com, yeah it kind of sucks, but they place the bigger increments on the houses that they expect a lot of action from. they always post the bid increments on the page with the auction right under the starting price, so pay attention to that. the higher the increment, the more likely the amount of buyers will drive up the price. the lower the increments, the more likely that house has been on their website a while and they are looking to get rid of it, which translates into a good deal for you. over all, auction.com is a good place to buy.

I'm 38 and my plan is 60 units by 50.Ideally all within a small radius to have a direct effect on property values that translate into bigger school budgets.

@Kevin Lefeuvre it could permanently alter the way we do business.

I am altering strategies and markets to speed up process.

Consider the nature of the jobs and the kind of money that people will make before translating that into real estate price inflation.