You can also ask for a 'Seller Credit" which helps cover closing costs or buy the rate down if you come in high enough on the purchase offer.

It should give you pause that a sub-100k duplex is hard to sell, while 300k duplexes receive 15 offers in 24 hours.

Offer to cover 3% of closing costs since you’re saving that in realtors fees.

Our lender offers nothing.

"Regentrification" to me is when a City, Mayor's Devenlopment Council, offers Tax breaks etc. for Builders to build "affordable housing" in the run down neighborhoods where I would never want to own anything.

I put an offer on a property.

Example belowwe found a house for 900 a month rent Asking price was 59900. taxes 1400, insurance 800, renovation budget 25k mostly cosmetic and minor fixeswe went into it expecting a 15% return on our cash out  that gave us a expected cash out loan around 75k to get our 1.4 dscr   When we plugged our numbers  we could go over 47k on our offer to make the deal work  we offered 43 and got counter 47,5  we took the deal assume a slightly lower 1.38 dscrthe key is to scale and be selective on tenants AND not allowing pets (you can offer them but suggest crazy fees to cover yourself)  500 pet fee, 25 a month per pet etc.  

Social media and online marketing - we signed up with our web developer for a service she began offering early last year where you pay a monthly fee for continuous SEO, including updates on social media, etc.  

@Lisa Rechsteiner The reality is us investor/realtors don't have limitless capital to buy every deal we come across.

Just because someone offers 6% monthly fee does not mean it might not come from somewhere else.