However, I know there are risks with transferring to an LLC in this fashion so am I better off just biting the bullet and taking the loan out through the LLC, meaning 30% downpayment, likely less than 30 year loan, and likely a bit higher interest rate?

Agents with industry expertise need to join these web platforms at the ground floor and ride the real estate technology revolution now, or else they will find themselves made obsolete in 10-15 years.

Ride the wave of appreciation.

I live in Asheville, North Carolina and would like to be within a 3 hour car ride ideally.

I guess that is where i am seeking advice on what i should do, suck it up pay out some cash to lock these things on a 30 year now, ride out the 3yr balloon and refinance when im below 80% or use the combined appraisals to put everything on the 15yr balloon ASAP.I would like to name this the FRRRR strategy (a more specific BRRRR descendant) Finance, Rehab, Rent, Refinance, Repeat.

While quality of information may not always be the greatest from some of the posters here, there may be things that those smaller real estate investors know that can help your bottom line, simply because they are riding a lot finer of a line between profit and loss and are more prudent to it.

You just have to be really careful where you buy since it went from a Class D neighborhood with dilapidated houses and lots of graffiti where I would not be comfortable having Airbnb guests walking at night, to an ever-expanding high-fashion retail Design District all within about 5 years.  

It's basically a huge canal that runs behind the Scottsdale Fashion Square mall, which has really been remodeled over the past 10 years or so. 

Account ClosedIf you have good net cash flows, bought all cash, or great interest rate, you can hold indefinitely and ride out the next recession.

And every year, I am more surprised than the last.As you may know, I quit my corporate job in 2014 to be a full time real estate investor and what a wild ride it has been.