I am also thinking about investing out of state since home prices are pretty high in NJ, and it seems finding cash flow is a bit tough around here.

If you put money into the property, which you likely would do, you'll ultimately have more than $600 at risk.It seems crazy to put down a $2,500 deposit for a $600 property but their policy is their policy even though it's strange.

Just looking at how prices are seems STR could be more profitable.

We qualify up to 50% DTI for conventional loans, so it seems that you'd have room to meet our criteria.

Now, this seems like a model of retirement that’s worth spending more time on than spell check.

The idea of pursuing lets say an 8 unit rental comparing to a duplex seems  to make more sense to me. 

It seems like much more of a "bigger picture" metric. 

We are about the same as you all- March and April seem slim.

Also seems like they like to stick on wealth taxes for rich greedy landlords and investors.

Nice job - Ohio seems like one of the best states right now for executing BRRRR