We have talked about hiring virtual assistants to handle a lot of the smaller tasks we could offload so that we could focus on increasing the quality of our relationships with our brokers, finding/analyzing more deals, raising capital and our weekly podcast we started a few weeks ago.

We also raised some private money from investors for the down payment, fees, insurance, and to get us to the first draw.

Now that the market has stabilized, the owners voted to raise the HOA fees for a period of time in order to do the necessary maintenance that was neglected.

We are looking into setting up a fund to raise capital to buy, remodel, furnish and decorate a house.

I am a new investor who is in the education and raising capital phase.

In other words — over 27.7% more expensive.Taking this data into account, hosts would be smart to not begin significantly raising their rates until at least 1 week prior to Christmas.

Completely renovated the property and raised the rents from $850-900 per side to $1400 per side.

Your first rental property, if it is a good investment does Not raise your DTI.  

I just used my VA loan to do a cash-out refinance of my primary residence to raise capital to invest with. 

You could drop the price 5-10k, and maybe you'll get a few bites, or you can raise the commission one percent, and watch them hustle for a bigger paycheck, saving YOU time and money.