My thoughts originally were to go FHA as it is my first-time home, but I'm beginning to feel more deterred by it.

Hey Everyone!So I've heard a lot of podcasts and you often hear investors talk about finding properties delinquent on taxes. What investors will do is offer to buy the house cash to help them out of a bad situation.My...

As long as the partnership agreement is structured correctly and that you all can establish cash flow criteria for prospective investment projects. 

That is, how many prospective rental deals are you seeing, say, weekly?

I'm a multi-store owner in Southern California and I run a little website for laundromat owners and prospective owners called laundromatresource.com.

Prospect property:$30k SFH3bed/ 1 bath 967sf.

I did a showing for new prospects.

A tenant compares rents of condos to other housing and if you ask for market rent plus hoa fee, a prospective tenant moves on.

Some would say that's a complete waste of time , but I actually really enjoy it - it makes me happy when a prospective tenant walks in and says "it just feels like happy and cookies in here" (quote from the last open house I did) :)  I do that because I enjoy it and I want my future tenants to see that I care, not because it will necessarily yield the max money. 

In leveraged real estate investment, G/L is the result of:Surplus cash flow if anyPrincipal gain on your mortgageValue-add play/market inefficiency at purchase or afterPrice appreciation/depreciationRent appreciation/depreciation (and raising rents at purchase if applicable)A prospective property should be deemed attractive if under a well constructed model and across a certain time period, it optimizes total income from the above better than other prospective properties.Note the flip side of leveraged cash flow is leveraged CapEx, where a more accurate assessment of the latter may significantly reduce your projected cash flow.Principal gain should be considered in relation to cash flow, it may be an "almost certain" gain in the long run only in strong markets, though still is an unrealized gain and remains unimpactful until the property is sold or the equity is extracted in some way.