- personally at SMARTLAND as experienced heavy lift multifamily operators - it is a complex process and requires a team, time and skill - Yes, you can lift a property and value moderlty quickly if you have the right tools and process in place, no doubt, but you have to also have the correct financing tools in place and appropriate cost-basis to withstand turbulence along the way - (no straight path) - the short term mezz loans into this constricted/constrained lending environment is tough, even more tough with raising cap rates, market repricing = requires more time to season and continue to hold, unfortunatley as we have discuss to the max on this forum time was not on this operators side with the short term adjustable mezz loan -**Pref Equity has entered many deals in the past 18 months advance of LP positions, also took a GP slice along the way  ---- 

With our higher interest rate environment, 3% or 5% down may not be enough to be cash flow neutral.

Having $200k and trying to get over a 50% return to start in this economic environment is going to be extremely challenging but even more riskyBesides replacing income look to other areas where you can reduce costs

I got 6 PDX officers and another 10 or more folks  that left the urban environment for our burb or little 22k pop city. values are high still though in the city so there is that to..

No one wants that.In today's environment, try to set the interest floor at 7%... more of you can make it work.

There are conventional loans as well with low down payments and the PMI falls off once you reach 20% equity.In this higher interest rate environment, lower down payments does make it harder to cash flow, so just keep that in mind.

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You can definitely still do BRRRR deals in Detroit in today's environment but you have to be careful of the team you're working with.There's a lot happening in the Detroit market in terms of investment and revitalization.

The current interest rate environment has put a damper on a lot of investor's plans to execute a cash out refinance. 

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