The Boston MFR market is just plain nuts and the same holds true for pretty much anything inside RT 128 and even out to many parts of the inside-495 belt.In general, you'll find property values increase the closer you get to Boston. 

In the last 5 years San Diego apartment rent has increased $540/month.  

The data that I pulled from MLS just a couple days ago shows that the average DOM has increased by about 1 month since I started keeping track of it earlier this year. 

We have good, not great credit, and a decent amount of savings that we're hoping to continue to increase.

With rates going up, my concern would be if they increase more before you rrefinance.

Account ClosedThis is a tough question to answer without knowing all the facts.Where is the foreign investor's home country.You may need to look at the treaty between the US and his country to see if there is any exception.You should also be aware that there may be increased withholding at closing because of dealing with a foreign investor.Furthermore, the income may be considered "effectively connected income" requiring w/h in behalf of the foreign party.

It can be hard estimating rehab costs for a normal home, I'm guessing fire damage increases that difficulty even more.

To make matters worst, HOAs increased by about $100! 

I know the rehab "R" would be more like getting more storage units rented or increasing the rents rather then fixing up the property, even though you could do that too.  

Hi All,I am starting to get some interest from family with respect to leveraging some of their cash on deals to increase the rate of return they are seeing with their other investments.