I have purchased with good timing and poor timing.  

While I am surprised at that, I also think it is the proper way to view real estate.I always go back to my first vacation rental purchase as an example:  In 2005, I bought a beautiful, 2-acre creek-side cabin in Cosby (near Gatlinburg) for $240,000. 

Have you looked into Free leads, like Foreclosure sales, Bankruptcy Filings, Divorce Filings, these are all places you can find leads for free by doing a little work yourself.If you want to fix and flip or buy and hold any properties, we can fund up to 90% of the purchase price, and our rental rates start at 5.3%.Hope this helps.

Purchase price: $465,000 Cash invested: $125,000 Four Family Property bought in an exchange, was in fantastic condition with just one unit that needed to be made rent ready.

I recently purchased an investment property and as I was adding the property to my BiggerPockets account there was a follow-up question that asked, "Did you work with any real estate professional (agents, lenders, etc.) that you'd recommend to others?"

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I am trying to refi my property so I could purchase another one so I was wondering if any is having the same problem with low value.

Run the numbers.  4 SFH will cost you more to purchase than 2 duplexes, but will also get you more money generally speaking. 

View report*This link comes directly from our calculators, based on information input by the member who posted.This property was listed $320KDuplex with basement and 3 car garage in a Class B neighborhood .

I purchased some suburban office space during covid as office prices were decimated.