She’s for real estate (I think market is over inflated) but in the past we use it for rainy day fund vs holding $ for repairs as well as acquiring property via cash to rehab and sell.Regarding equity shares I would read the fine print as from what I have read you basically are selling your sole to those companies for a small payout to start but giving up a ton of equity

I'm not sure you are going to be able to find a property for $100,000 to sell to an end-user at $170,000 with $40,000k in work from afar. 

This property will require about 45% down to hit the 1.25 DSCR that is the median requirement for a commercial real estate loan.If you want to be at that price point with that much for the downstroke, you need to be looking at higher risk properties with a higher cap rate.

I had a W2 I wanted to leave and thought that owning 30 rental properties would be enough to retire from corporate life.

I want to understand how many properties are bid on by third parties and how many revert to lenders.

I live in Fairfield County and am looking to invest in a property for house hacking somewhere in New Haven County. 

What are your thoughts on getting a property with HOA? 

There are thousands of time shares for sale on the net and vacations can be had for pennies on the dollar.I think we sold his time share on a web site selling them for about $20.

My husband and I are still working our W-2s (and extra), but we can't move on another property until this one is at least paying for itself.

Ones that were selling for $225-250K 3.5 years ago are now selling for $325-350K.