and future assumptions so I was hoping you kind folk on the BP forums could help me look at the numbers because right now they aren’t looking so good!

I've been reading around and their is a lot of helpful folks on here.

I am new to this site as well, but so far, I have found a wealth of information and very helpful folks.

What other advice do folks haveThank you very much for your help

Hi folks, I'm closing on my 3rd Property next week and I was curious what the pros and cons are of escrowing.

I would also suggest hitting up a local meet up here in Hawaii before you go so that you can talk with more folks about what they are doing with their investing and ask more questions. 

You don't have to own it to sell it either ... that's what Real Estate Agents do, they sell properties they don't own.The counter argument is that if you JUST look at cash flow when calculating your ROI, then pretty much no time in the past 30 years in Southern California (for example) has looked like a good time to buy, and yet somehow lot's of folks still managed to make a lot of money buying and holding real estate here, with much higher returns than they would've had in the stock market, and I'm sure most people were telling them then that prices were too high and there is no way they could go any higher.

One word of advice is to take action, many folks investigate, review, analyze, etc...for a long time, I would recommend - go look at 50 properties, find a broker/agent that will open the doors for you to view them, analyze each property financially before you go in, knowing the numbers prior, then adjust your numbers.  

Thanks to the great advice I got from the folks on this forum, I now have a great tenant in place for my first rental starting 6/1, and we are putting an offer on a duplex later this week, so exciting!

I want to see if folks have suggestions for finding the appropriate insurance coverage variety or if there is something I have not thought of.