They can do some fast prelim work.

You can go about it both ways, you can get it under contract after you've been pre-approved for funding but it really shows the lender you're serious if you have it under contract already.The price of the house won't change drastically after it's under contract, so we'll know how much funding you'll need and you'll have a clearer financial picture from which to plan from.Let me know if there's anyway I can help!

So you wouldn't necessarily change your monthly CapEx numbers for it but you would want the purchase price to reflect it.As for property management, I would always suggest to include the number.

Always ask how negotiable they are and how fast they want to close.

Yes, I recently have met investors who own 35+ homes in Michigan (not Detroit)...Maybe with all this investor activity and bulldozing that will change? 

Markets Chang and multi-family prpty are financed differently than single-family.  

If you want to make 30-40% on $100 million, I would say that is highly unlikely to happen.On $50-$100k, depending on the market, you could definitely do that.The ratio of your time to the money you have can change your percentage return dramatically.

I have lived in Dallas Texas County all of my life and I have seen many changes in my 59 years.Texas is a great place to be.  

I have been consulting people and governments for years on financial matters and legislation. I moved to Columbus, Ohio in March and recently took a teaching job that has me moving back to Dayton, Ohio. I want to set ...

If you expect closing costs to be 5k then you can try and change the offer to 55k with them paying 5k towards closing.