I have a friend who runs a senior dog rescue and recently got screwed over by an investor who rehabbed her home.

I am however a Senior Enlisted Leader with 16.5 years of active duty service.

Louis area:Single to 4-unit properties:Chet Hileman, Senior Mortgage Banker, F&B Financial Group.www.fandbfin.comPortfolio Lender, 4 units+:Bradley D.

W&D also did that transaction: it was a $14,280,000 loan for The Lakewood, an affordable, senior housing community in Dayton, OH, for Millennia Housing Development.Baldasare originated and structured the rehab loan as well.The program is living up to its promise of eliminating costs and requiring less documentation because it is a tax-exempt loan, not a bond, he tells GlobeSt.com.

Market will dictate.If most of the housing stock is 3/1.5, then that's the sweet spot. 3/2 would be the premium.2br can be attractive to small families, young adults and seniors wanting/needing to downsize especially if the room size is generous.  2 baths helps too.

Megan Mofitt is the Senior HELOC loan officer there and I can give you her information if needed, since most of the tellers in the branches aren't aware of the special 100% LTV program for an extra 1.5% above prime.

They will then ask for the loan docs you signed with him and if the verbiage doesn't work for them, they could close the door because the loan you have with the owner could not allow for any debt to be senior to it and banks generally don't lend when they aren't in first position. 

This is an insidious tax that the government levies on citizens because they only feel the effect indirectly.

Outside of say some reasonably priced areas of Europe (and I don't think it would be easy to purchase if you are not a citizen of the EU, but I am not sure) I find real estate as a whole, far cheaper and investor friendly in the US than most places of the world.

I've been researching real estate investing for quite some time now, but figured that I wouldn't actually start until I got out of college (I am a rising senior at Vanderbilt).