I'll break it out for you.Gross Salary: $80,000/yearGross Salary per month: $6,667/monthAfter Tax Salary per month (not including 401k investing (which you should be doing, but I get this is a real estate message board and this concept is not popular): $5,434Purchase Price: $600,000Interest Rate per Calculator: 6.941%Downpayment: 5% or $30,000Financed Amount: $570,000Mortgage: $3,769.67Property Tax: $600Insurance: $125Other Costs (per calculator): $333.33Total Monthly Payment: $4,828/monthAfter Tax Salary - Your New Homes Cost = $5,434 - $4,828 = $606CONGRATULATIONS, you are what is referred to as "house poor." 

Hi, I have been on Biggerpockets and reading all the information i can get.We are getting ready to buy our first out of state investment property and looking in Austin.Looking for advise on which area is better, RR lo...

The seminal book on the strategy, 30-Day Stay, published here on BiggerPockets and written by MTR pioneering investors Sarah Weaver and Zeona McIntyre, has helped popularize the method.

I’ve been doing a ton of research on it as I’ve been looking at Italy myself so I have been focused on the less densely populated but still very popular travel spots like Tuscany outside of Florence and Sicily though I’m nervous about Sicily and their major drought issues.

Made from solid logs from the now-extinct Chestnut tree, wood floors, and original rock fireplace.  

REI Nation manages 7,964 single-family rental homes in 13 U.S. markets, including Memphis, Dallas, Houston, Little Rock, Oklahoma City, and Birmingham. 

Paint sloppy, floors put in first then trampled on for months, sheet rock rough. 

Definitely the most popular places are midwest and southeast.

I block off super popular dates (like 4th of July week), then unblock them 2-3 weeks beforehand with much higher prices than I would have gotten if I'd left them open 6 months ahead. 

Insurance is going to get more expensive, the government wants to keep people in homes, home equity financing is only growing in popularity, multiple generations are living under the same roof more, and all of those trends are going to lead to changes in how tax law is used and possibly the law itself.