Flipping is a high risk activity.

If I could chime in to help in the search:be sure to find an accountant who is willing to grow with you, and is not too high priced fee-wise.

Most of the time, deals pencil better with a regular DSCR loan for an acquisition than with a high-interest rate ARM on your primary. 

Here are my criteria:1.Purchase value below 75k2.At least one college3.Diverse economy4.Not high crime5.Growing population 6.Not smaller then 10k peopleAny recommendations ?

On a side note, the main reason for home prices being so high is restricted development.

We have outstanding occupancy (in the high 90%) at a rate that is basically the same as LTR.  

Very humble, hardworking, blue-collar family and they happen to grow up in a part of California that is highly desirable now.

World of finance is in free fall, and being in new home development we went from running a thousand miles per hr to a dead stop in the blink of an eye, and being so high on that ladder, it was a long fall and a hard hit at the bottom.

The high-appreciation asset will gain more value monthly than the low-appreciation asset that spins off some cashflow.That said, are you sure the first home will appreciate more over time?

I’ve seen high-highs and low-lows.