I have been having some success negotiating seller paid closing costs to help with rate buy down as well. - If you see a property that makes sense, I encourage you to get an offer in ASAP.

Today, he cleared all of the bats, completely rebuilt the chase, re-flashed, sealed, and got everything battened down in time for the guests tomorrow!  

I can bring 200-300k in down payment to that closing.

Now, rate is important...but it's not the only thing that it comes down to. 

When you get the opportunity down the road you could change the facade permanently.

I could just get better at establishing relationships with the trades and hope that my cost to manage will go down in the future.

You want an unbiased Inspector.Then:Do a SWOT analysis of your resourcesWrite down your real estate goalsPick an asset type: SFH, 2-4 units, 5+ units, or something else like MHP.

For example, a field called "Borrower Name" appears on page one once, and is copied as many times as necessary to the note and deed of trust, further down in the PDF.All I have to do is fill out every field on page one and every field with the exact same name in the rest of the document automatically matches and in the correct position.

They are expensive $200 each but they do not break down and you can track who uses codes so a family could each have their own code per person.

Your competing with big national lenders that are offering financing with low rates by buying the rate down.