We wanted to turn it over as quickly as we could to reduce holding costs, yet we both have demanding full-time jobs (teacher and mortgage industry) and two little kids (5 and 2).

In addition, reduce your risk and losses by having a strong lease and enforcing it.

A regular income may cause it to be reduced or lose it altogether.You might be able to buy it yourself and put it into a spendthrift trust for quality of life advances only, no necessities.

Finally, if you are borrowing against your home, you just lost that "advantage" you had in interest rate from the 15 yr loan which reduce CF, increases DTI, and slows growth.

If something changes when they meet their case worker then section 8 wants to reduce the rent subsidy.

If it does cover all that then it is more palatable as the 50% rule does have that 50% include the taxes and insurance and in this case the fee, which should reduce your maintenance and management costs.Another thing to consider is if you don't want to piss away rent money and you aren't looking to buy another rental with better cash flow potential right now there isn't anything wrong with buying and selling when you are ready to move.

I think the main problem is these loans have all been created fairly recently, and reduced the overall age of my open accounts.

The house did however come with an A/C at the time they signed a lease so I have to maintain it or reduce her rent.Hey this may be a good strategy for getting her out.

I'm now receiving offers in the mail to reduce my CC debt.

You'll be looking at a higher FMR that will reduce your credits allowed for financing purposes based to some extent on the repairs you made.As to refinancing, the hard costs of your improvements will be considered as an equity achieved.