I’m a very hard worker and a huge believer in providing “sweat equity” in return for knowledge and firsthand experience.

In my marker a 1% property would lose money every month.. you typically need higher return the lower the price, many expenses are the same or minimally different, regardless if the house is $20,000 or $200,000

Give the seller some cash upfront (down payment)  to make the deal attractive.The investor wins by getting better terms from the owner than could be obtained from a hard money lender.The owner wins by getting a better rate of return on their money than if they got the cash upfront and put everything in the bank.

While your paid-off homes may have a higher cash-flow, your cash-on-cash return will be much lower.

Hi BP, I just rented my property and I'm not getting a lot of return back because I pay $ 911 for the mortgage and I have the property rented for $ 1100.

However, if you take $1M with a 2% return for 30 years it ends up with a value of 1.8M. 

I hope it went smoothly and you were able to get solid returns. 

If I buy MLS properties, it usually works well for me to offer the selling  agent to double dip in return for a steep discount on the house.

I was not asked to show tax returns.

I figured I could earn a money market return on the cash during that time and offset some a large rehab I have going on.