When it rains or hails a metal roof that's is open to the living area is extremely loud.

I suppose here is a good time to ask you all, the “more expert than me-s” in the thread: on a scale of “5% return standard deviation bond market” to “15% return standard deviation stock market”, where would you put the unleveraged, post expense rental income of a well managed (aye, there’s the rub) SFH portfolio?

Build a local team of experts, and after a year, refinance to fund the next purchase.

You’ll need an expert like @Dave Foster in rewards to doing a 1031 for your business.

As a negative, it also has the largest gap between the cost to buy versus the cost to rent, making cash flow extremely difficult without committing more equity up front.

Go through your goals and make sure what they know and are an expert in lines up with exactly what you want.

I don't expect a swift recovery from Trump, without some extreme pain.

If you ask anyone in this business, note servicing is the Achilles heel and it is extremely difficult starting one from scratch. 

Our agent is not an expert on this type of deal but suggested a short loan term of 3 or 4 years and a balloon payment and written up by a lawyer. 

.  ;-)  I created an EXTREMELY specific business model and repeated it.