I've bought a few REO's and I would recommend on overseas investor stick with a traditional purchase with inspection.

You can sometimes use traditional financing if the property will be owner occupied.Good luck on your journey and I hope this helps.Ed

Is it me or are those numbers off compared to the traditional way of how to classify apartment buildings? 

All I need is solid traditional financing tools, no hard money but would like investor friendly.Thanks!!

@Brandon Ribeiro since you've only been working for 3 months you won't be able to go the traditional financing route because lenders need a minimum of 2 years tax returns in order to come to an accurate assumption of what you can afford based off your stated income/debt/assets.

It is a tax deductible and tax free account (sort of like a traditional and roth ira) that can be used to pay for medical expenses.  

I'm, not sure how to pose this question either but here goes...I recently used a cash-out refi to purchase a SFR rental property for 100% cash but I am now wondering if it would have wiser to buy it using a traditional mortgage from a tax perspective.  

We are currently waiting to close on another property using a traditional conventional loan this Friday (fingers crossed, this is our first investment property so its really exciting).  

There are many ways to acquire financing or funds/ capital etc. you need: hard money lenders, traditional banks ( investors pay more in interest than owner occupant status home buyers), partners, family and friends, retirement funds ( maybe Roth), private lenders, mortgage brokers, crowd funding, seller financing, savings, rents/ dividends/ interest and other income, etc.

If you use private investing to fund the 25% down payment and secure seller financing or traditional bank financing for the rest how do you compute the IRR?