I'm looking to buy, rehab, and leave as little cash as possible in (through a refi) it while optimizing for cash flow.

Be happy with the niche you select and know the market well too, especially the best locations.Always remember to do a math analysis and try to look at all prospective properties before you make an offer or at least have a clause in the sales contract that gives you some time (about 10 days) to make a detailed inspection and possibly back out of the deal without much of a penalty that will hurt you too much.  

I have lots of clients in the same boat- just getting started and trying to make the best possible choices as they move forward.

I plan on keeping this for myself if possible, not necessarily wholesaling.

I have lots of clients in the same boat- just getting started and trying to make the best possible choices as they move forward.

Great to see you take the first and possibly most difficult step in real estate investment - reaching out ang getting involved!

Or possibly using it to leverage into another mortgage.

I am interested in flips and rentals and possibly multi-family at this point.

Currently saving up money and thinking of going the live-in multi-unit route along with possibly some tax lein investing back in Indiana.  

this is a refinance the 5.25% was already done years agothe property is rented out right now so all costs are covered i just wanted to see if a lower rate was possible