Christina,So now with a mix of traditional financing deals and at least one owner financed deal, which do you prefer?

(Nobody)When things or if things went bad and proper disclosure is not followed or improper investors are brought into the mix, you will find yourself in some very deep water.

Anyway, I thought I would share my proposal for a modern mixed use building in the city of Rochester NY.

It's mixed-use, with a retail, laundromat, two industrial shops, an apartment and a house (right behind) that are all on the same parcel.

In general you wouldn't want to mix the liability of construction with the liability of owning real estate.

The benefit to you is you get the benefit of owner occupied financing, you are on-site so you can keep an eye on the place, and you are on-site so you get told of every little problem**ok, this is a mixed blessing.

Rehabbing is fine if they are selling turn key but then you have to watch out that they are not padding the numbers.One bad tenant in a house can wipe out your cash flow for that year in some cases.Some markets are rental only,some purchase only,and some are a mix of the two.So you have to decide if you want cash flow only,appreciation only and break even for cash flow,or some of both for your strategy.Best part of the U.S. to buy is a loaded question.Again that will be subjective as to do you want immediate yield only (cash flow) in a dumpy area that will not appreciate much if at all??

I can see, however, that you need to thoroughly drive these potential neighborhoods, to make sure that you’re defining truly homogenous areas, and aren’t mixing in some not-so-good streets.

There is some mixing of concepts here that seems to be leading to confusion.

I've read mixed things about mobile homes because of depreciation.