The decision will be based upon your personal situation and your opportunity cost (i.e. to you have a better use for the amount of funds needed to bring your down payment from 10% to 20% that will produce a better {after tax} return than avoiding the mortgage insurance).If you are purchasing the property as a rental, then your mortgage interest is a business expense and it may make sense to take the high ratio mortgage (10% downpayment) provided the property still cash flows with the extra leverage.If you do elect to go with the 10% downpayment and plan to purchase two properties, discuss this with your mortgage broker / lender first to make certain you will be able to have two high-ratio mortgages.  

I don't find this to be true in practice but I'm sure it happens.End result: Don't fear the MLS :)

The end result is that you must be able to reinvest everything, including the value of the note, in order to defer all of your taxes. 

My husband worries about the property value of our primary residence being affected by the continued decay of the distressed property next door, but after my quick study of the BP site and forums, I'm more worried about investing in a property that won't produce good cash flow, especially for our first buy-and-hold. 

My commitment to client success and tenacious approach produces amazing results.

I've taken some courses in analyzing investment properties, produced APOD's, noticed the drawbacks in how the typical Cap Rate is calculated, and dug deeper to find four-square and the mortgage constant. 

This has resulted In very minimal vacancy for me.

Native apps (meaning the BiggerPockets apps on the Apple App Store and Google Play Store) allow us to build free of the constraints of the technologies available in web browsers, which in turn enables the resulting app to be faster, snappier, smoother, more responsive and generally nicer to use.

When i have no bedroom filter, i get about 6000 results for my geographic selections, but once i adjust it to 3-10 bedrooms it sinks to 1200 results.Thoughts?

The lender they are working with is pushing them in a certain direction, most likely because it will result in a bigger loan amount so they would make more money.