.- Capital gains deferment (1031)In each case here, you are not making money or generating any income.

Obviously, you should be generating positive cash flow off the property you already have.

The other hand tells me to sell and find a better investment.After all, I would not buy a 300,000 house today and be forced to put down 125,000 to generate a 300 monthly cashflow.I would greatly appreciate hearing any other perspectives out there.

$1,400,000 for a duplex that generates gross rents of $8,800 per month sounds like suicide to me.Mike

I would think if you found ones that would be more of a year round destination that you could generate more cash flow.

However, after 30 days or so with no contract, I will ad Bank Owned to try and generate showings.

I hope to generate new contacts for investement ideas as well as new business for my portfolio.

There comes a point in time when you must realize that in order to generate superior results, you must take superior action.

The best route for me has been to decide what I want in the offer and have the agent put it in their computer and generate the offer in the appropriate format.Their comuter does it as a "fill in the blanks" (I know there's a term for the software that does this, but it's eluding me right now).

I do have JV "joint Venture" monies based on information that you will have to generate- 1.