It also gives you a more comparable bid, more of apple to apple bid, not apple to orange. you know how you shop for comps before you buy the house?

Anyone with 400K followers raises an orange flag with me.Not because 300 clowns agree with you does it mean you are right.Thanks for not just replying but also contributing to this bro!

. - say I have 200K on hand to invesst and am looking in Riverside/San Bernandino where real estate is less expensive than Orange County, and would like to start with a small property to get my feet wet:   do I use most of the 200K and finance the least amount possible or do finance as much of it as possible and hold onto my cash as much as possible?

General areas to avoid in Memphis are frayser and orange mound.Some good locals who can provide more insight are Douglas Skipworth Elizabeth Wilson or Curt Davis

Mario CEO of The Orange Box Project

I think we are comparing apples to oranges.

I've created a few questions that serve as a BS Detector and will quickly flag into the orange or red range when near a fraud.

We currently own a single family home in Orange County.

I currently flip homes in LA and Orange Counties.

**Investing with an IRA is a totally different tax paradigm, and making this comparison between a given asset (in this case real estate) in after-tax and retirement realms is an apples and oranges scenario.