Those assumable VAs were gold if you could find them but you had to have the balance in cash and FHA required larger down payments, 10% min if i remember on FHA.The US Government has a huge hand in balancing the housing market and since it is central to our Economy (see 2008) they do there best to keep it hopping. 

I am in Pinellas County and its a gold mine for VRBO's.

I find there's always a gold nuggets of information in each one and I go back to listen to a number of them multiple times.

For the first time in years, Americans are seeing their homes as investments.The American Dream of homeownership—having a place to call your own—may not have dissipated during the housing crisis, but the concept of home-as-investment tumbled just as home prices did.According to a recent Gallup poll, real estate beats out stocks, bonds, savings accounts and even the Great Recession's investment darling, gold, as the favored form of long-term investment.

I researched a few units through the county code violations website and found so many citations for poor conditions, dangerous construction issues, and unpermitted work that it just didn't make sense...yet.For a new investor, I thought I found a gold mine!!

Call me when you have nothing else to do and we can talk about making money, writing contracts, Control & Roll, delayed settlements, hybrid offers, skinning offers, commercial purchase, assignments, auctions, my kids, my grand kids, my house on Amelia Island Florida, my pet gold fish - your kids and your financial goals --- Ha - should be a long time on the phone with all those subjects.Cheers ------ Charles

Read blogs, post questions, and the podcasts are gold!

The benefit of an owner-occupied loan is that you can get into real estate with a low amount of cash.It's hard to buy and flip a house or turn a rental property into a little cashflow gold mine ... so many variables and layers to think through and understand.

Sounds like a good business idea on my end of things if I was in that area of the country.I was thinking the exact same thing.. it was not the gold miners who got rich in the Gold Rush's it was the people selling the pots and pans and other tac .. 

Most my assets are in gold and silver investments should I liquidate that to use as leverage as a diversified portfolio by purchasing a multifamily apartment of at least 100 units.