You just have to monitor them on a regular basis.

Does the 45-50% include a sinking fund that is funded regularly out of rents to pay for future capital expenditures?

It is a small bar but has plenty of regulars.

Just get a regular mortgage if you can at a low rate.

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From what little I know (and that is ALL I know in this area), I can't imagine how a place will cash flow given the numbers you supplied even with a large downpayment or do better than a regular MMF.

ctrentalguy,You can't possibly know an exact dollar figure for evictions, legal costs, damage, lawsuits, and many more of the expenses, but they do exist; do occur with regularity; and they are significant.

This scenario is entirely real and these situations do happen with regularity.

"I buy properties regularly" I wish I would have put that on my business card instead of Real Estate Investor.

I just know I wouldn't feel comfrontable not being able to visit my properties on a regular basis.