Ideally I'd like him to carry 25-30% at 4.5%. does he laugh in my face?

Hey, it sounds like you have had a few challenges in your rental properties.

I sure do appreciate your input though - i am not challenging your advice, but rather just trying to find the reasoning behind it.

dear buddy i also faced this problem.i also wanted to find the exact location for real estates.now i have data about Real Estate and the exact locations about that one.

:D ) let's face it - the 50% rule is a good basic guideline to use when you are quickly running the numbers on a number of properties to decide whether to spend time trying to buy them.

I took the red one.For me it was simply that I wanted to broaden my horizons far beyond what was in my face.

I see a couple of challenges with this arrangement.One is that you need enough profit for both of you to make money.

Lending guidelines are in chaotic flux at the moment creating many challenges for investors.

They aren't sold, they're issued by the bank to those who pay for them and sold to an exit buyer ata % off face value the same as an mtn.

Guessing there would be some pretty specific challenges.