If you're a single mom with student loans, a car payment, and living paycheck-to-paycheck, then $20,000 would be devastating and a reserve is critical.

The hwy that allows access to rural communities will be improved rural internet and cell reception.

This gives me authority to improve things to my benefit.

Fortunately, our software provider continues to improve their product and allow owners to select alerts they want and don't want.Next, we've asked our software provider to add a feature that would allow our owner clients to select from: Immediate Alerts, Daily Alert Summary, Weekly Summary, Monthly Summary.Of course, we call owners when there's a critical issue.

ATR rules do NOT apply to investment properties so products like DSCR loans and often hard money loans do not look at the borrowers income.

Additionally, if you are looking to build any type of portfolio yourself, you will need capital, and often times your W2 is what will let you get loans that you would not get without a W2.  

Once you narrow the market down then there are also development factors, demographics, jobs, city investments and improvements. 

If you previously bought a primary using an FHA loan..there are some exceptions that you could obtain a new FHA loan, usually within 12 months of occupancy and some extenuating circumstances that could allow for sooner.

From there we were able to raise rents on renewals and improve out tenant leases to pass on more expenses to the tenants.

Also wanted to buy this property as it was a board up directly across from my first investment property so by improving it I helped the neighborhood values and keeping the area up.