Stay put and use some cash to expand your asset base.

I presume you are trying to "add value" in terms of increasing cash flow, not in terms of increasing the value of the home (for you to later cash out refinance)?

Anyone could cash flow in 2012, it'd take a real special idiot to not cash flow.

I was gifted a lot in Palm Coast and want to build a single family  rental home. 

Purchase price: $310,000 Cash invested: $15,000 Sale price: $425,000 Contributors: Peter Vekselman Partner Driven, in collaboration with Seth Choate, successfully completed a fix-and-flip on Carriage Lane, Oakdale, CA.

Without a large down payment, cash flow can be tough to find with a traditional rental right now. 

We have a sfr we paid cash for and is worth more than when we bought it.  

Purchase price: $710,000 Cash invested: $142,000 STR in Wheat Ridge CO What made you interested in investing in this type of deal?

Purchase price: $233,000,000 Cash invested: $23,300,000 single famly, 4/2.5 2 story How did you finance this deal?

Purchase price: $1,355,000 Cash invested: $135,500 Bridge House STR What made you interested in investing in this type of deal?