Of course, the rest spiraled and ended up much over. 

These markets have been appreciating at a higher rate than the rest of the nation for the last 50+ years ... check the long term track record of housing prices if you don't believe me, they're public record.

We saw a significant increase to listing prices since Nov '20 (not surprising as this is similar in the rest of CA).We thought we landed on a gem b/c this property had fallen out of escrow due to last buyer's inability to close the loan. 

You could theoretically just use hard money for the down payment, a conventional loan for the rest and have your tenant pay back the loan and mortgage, but your cash flow would probably be relatively nonexistent.I think hard money works best for investments with more upfront returns like flips, or for rental property that you source and improve yourself because then you’re guaranteed a higher appraisal.

The cheapest way is to do nothing and wait for the rest of your neighborhood to appreciate.

And then it seems the rest is history.  

In the beginning you will need to just persevere through it all and let your actions speak loudly for you and the jibber jabber will all be put to rest.

Keeping everything under one business could lead to disaster if one of those businesses is financially or legally destroyed, which leaves the rest of the company's assets wide open to being litigated.I hope this helped give some insight.

I don't know if an ice-cream franchise is a good fit in Alaska or a Wool sweaters is a fit in Hawaii.5) How does franchise X fit with the rest of your tenants (assuming it's a retail strip of some sort) a pizza franchise in a strip mall that already has a pizza place will compete with each other and will eventually cause one of them to lose their business and you to lose the tenantJust some food for thought. 

I was doing a 70 % LTV Cash out Refi at $160K  which will be my new loan and Ill have about $98k of that back in my pocket which i plan to use to pay off the remaining balance of my $85k peer to peer loan and the rest to put down on my next.