After she left we found garbage everywhere, a full refrig. that was unplugged the whole time and a latch/lock on the outside of her son's door.

Buying put options could limit the risk to some extents while achieving much of the same results.

The whole city is exanding similarly.Besides the congestion, is this good for home value appreciation or will it lower it since when I try to sell or rent it, most of the other homes will be brand new and this will be a couple of years old.

I'm pretty new to the whole blogging/forum world, but i'm liking the online communities i'm finding :) Is it just me or is it kind of addicting?

I paid $192,000 for it, and I estimate it's value as a whole at $225,000 (not appreciating real fast) or as condos at $125,000-$135,000 for each side.

I may not be explaining this very well, but I am basically afraid of capping myself out credit wise that I will not be approved to buy more investments and that is the whole goal.

Hi,I'm a little confused about this whole OPM thing.

\Like the sales price to someone else would be approx 200k , with a rent of $1500 and that $300 would be a credit to the purchase in 3 years at 200k.If they don't buy I keep the whole 3yearsx$1500 a month?

It shouldn't control or shape whom you are or what you want to achieve as a real estate investor.

You want to deal with a broker/banker who will go over those options with you and looks at the whole picture.