Obviously, nobody can predict the future, but if you're likely to have the loan for a long time, the lower rate options can often make sense because the lower rate eventually makes up for the higher up front closing costs.

Should I not focus so much on the cash flow right from the first month, but just find a property that will eventually start producing cash flow.

I was an engineer at a corporate job that I hated and I started investing for myself and eventually left corporate to be an agent specific for investors and related to the properties I was buying already.

Eventually I got my own license and now I'm the broker for some other people just like you.For the people who say master leasing won't work I would say if you want to see someone who has made it work in a big way then check out davidtilney.comDavid is a fellow NARPM member and has been wildly successful doing master leasing for decades.If you do get into PM then join NARPM as fast as possible!

Hey all, I wanted to start a back-and-forth that will, hopefully, eventually be fruitful and prosperous for everyone involved in the Detroit market.

Honesty goes without saying, but what active flippers value is reliability, consistency, speed, and as much money as they can humanly get per deal.Active flippers eventually run out of money and look for a highest LTV loans they can find.

I've been wanting to do "something" in REI for 25+ years now, starting with buying the old Dave Del Dotto system back in '89, working with an investor in 1999 who eventually went bankrupt, and for the last year or so doing legwork (driving for dollars, researching properties, etc.) for another local investor.I always get held up with the money part of it. 

I am pasting a part of their blurb about why an insurance policy may not cover burst pipes (it boils down to having the most bare-bones form of coverage, instead of a more comprehensive policy):In the past few weeks we have seen a number of losses reported that prior experience tells us will eventually be denied by carriers.

Let them beg you to buy the house. you continue to collect rent and eventually the rent needs to increase.

The owner is valuing the park at a high commercial price, but my buyer is purchasing to use as a mobile home park initially, with the intent to eventually use it for his own business (his warehouse is a few blocks from this property, along the same street), or to resell it to a major retail business and capture that profit himself.