Background: Currently doing a Fannie REFI on two duplexes (originally purchased 2013 at 5%).  

Beautifully written and a wonderful perspective.  

Background is like most military REIs, I move-buy and rehab-rent my properties.

Plus, the additional benefit of mortgage pay down.With your background it may make sense to concentrate on value-add opportunities where you can reposition a property and cash-out refi in a couple of years to keep doing more deals.

The Spanish tile is so cheap here and so beautiful!

The Spanish tile is so cheap here and so beautiful!

Aside from providing the basics (ie. listing tool to get the property published to 10+ major sites, scheduling tool to schedule viewings, tenant screening with comprehensive applications -- pulled reports from TransUnion, which include nationwide criminal background checks + credit checks + eviction history, digital lease creation tool, rent collection tool, and maintenance tracking tool), some services also offer your tenants additional capabilities which makes it an easier sell on your end when getting them to transition over (ie. their ability to report on-time rent payments to the credit bureaus; this can create an added incentive for making sure they pay that rent on time).

This one turned out so beautiful!

It is now a beautiful home on a 15 year note that was rented before I even completed it!

In the background.