If you need a loan that certainly adds to closing due to all the  hoops the bank requires you to jump through 700 rent is not bad for a 37,000$ house .that is not a bad deal if the place doesn’t need a bunch of work ,but if you pay a property manager that is going to really burden your profit down .

Mold is part of flipping it just depends how bad.

If their credit isn't perfect because of some event, a lease option can give them time to improve it while occupying the home they want to own.Lease options are NOT good for people who are habitually bad with their money.

Yet most conversations center around good deal vs bad deals, or around more experienced investor's guidelines.

When it is bad, booze business is good.

Right now in SoCal there has not been a cycle in which putting your home on the market makes it a bad decision.

Like every other REI, you have to analyze it to pick out the good from the bad.

Have any of you guys had good or bad luck buying rentals around bases and targeting military members as renters?

I had a very bad experience with Auction.com today.

Looks more to me like either bad advice or not listening to good advise wrt developer. passion aboItbteal estate does not ewual develIoer skill.