When doing your calculations for ROI, do you base it on the actual amount you have in it or on the amount that the property is worth(ARV, etc)?

that may help you to get a discount to its actual value.

Which has no relation to what it may actually be worth.

Hi Parker,Welcome to the Tampa Investment market (#2 city in the country for investing in real estate actually).

If it makes you feel any better, 40% over that time period is actually a really bad rate of return, provided you bought cash.

Hey Michael, there is actually a category on the MLS called "DOM" (Days on Market).

The number of months of (total) operating expenses you should have in reserve will go down as your portfolio grows (If you have 10 units and 1 goes vacant, you're still getting 90% of your rental income).Its a numbers game really... 

Seed doesn't actually finance the deal, they just open up credit cards for you.

those are fabulous terms if you can actually get it done... lenders are very very particular on these loans and most folks get pretty frustrated with them.. its not like conventional were If you qualify they do the deal...

Would you have any audio books or actual hard copy books to suggest?