Forced appreciation which produced more equity and greater potential cashflow Lessons learned?

If it's a good income producing property, you could get up to 75% cash out of the value.

Of course they'll look at conventional ways to qualify you and your future spouse, but they may even look at the future rental income of the other units (if they're vacant) or current income they produce.  

The Tampa Bay area is more than likely not your market with those buying criteria.You will have to put meaningful sweat equity and be creative in your leasing (MTR, rent by room etc) to produce a 3bd SFH  <200K purchase price that cash flows. 

So for example a $550k 3/2 home will produce $55-65k in gross rents.

I got voodoo'd by this on the very last house I bought, where I am *certain* the bank would have come down another $2k but the selling agent magically produced another offer that was going to come up $1k from the bank's offer in order to "entice" me to take the bank's "final" offer.

Don't get me wrong, there are some great VAs out there, but you have to find them, train them, monitor them and pay them well for them to produce anything above mediocre results. 

If you plan to originate and sell, to get yields into fair market territory, you'll be discounting your paper, meaning that your margin on the home will need to be high enough to absorb the discount and still produce a better return than just outsourcing the lending process.

Cousin A used to have an income-producing property.

Like the previous monthly reports, the market typically reacts to numbers in comparison to estimates.Producer Price Index (PPI)The Producer Price Index (PPI) report is similar to CPI; however, it tracks costs (and inflation) for producers, such as product manufacturers or service suppliers.