Thank you for checking this out… I hope this information is helpful to you or someone you know in the New York market.If you are interested in 2-4 unit properties in Queens, Brooklyn, the Bronx, Westchester or Long Island, this will give you a sense of what is happening in the NYC metro area.How ‘hot’ is the market?

Looking for ways to keep this property in my portfolio as a long term rental.

The interest rates are crazy, and most term limits are 15 to 20 years.

If you're dead set on self-managing, find and purchase a property that already has long-term tenants and will want to stay after the turnover.

(full disclosure-I knew the guy, or know him, he's not dead just gone from the auctions and haven't talked to him in a few years, but he was always nice to me and I don't have a clue as to the validity of the federal charges against him, but he always treated me decently and I've got nothing bad to say about him and I know other landlords who've been demonized and slurred as slumlords when I think they simply bit off more than they can chew, while other real slumlords seem to operate for years, as long as they don't get too big) He used to kind of dominate those auctions and maybe that was a good thing, as I'm sure there's a whole cast of characters who've filed that void.Thing is, ANY property under $100k, maybe even under $150k or $200k will certainly have multiple bidders, there are a LOT of people like me when I'm looking, who have the subscription to the sheriff's sales info reports from the Daily Reporter ($600/year and you get the results emailed to you in an Excel spreadsheet on Tues, next weeks auctions emailed on Thurs) and another good indicator is I'm on an email list for one of the firms (actually out of Chicago) which handles a tiny, tiny fraction of the cases and I've looked at the "cc list" or whatever you'd call it if ALL the addresses that email is sent to and there are HUNDREDS of them on there and this is for I think Johnson Blumberg, who many weeks don't even have any cases in MKE or Waukesha Cty.

Do not fall for the attractive looking term sheet. 

Below are the figures:Purchase Price: $225,369.78ARV: $199,000.00Mortgage Balance: $209,099.44Great thing about wraps, however, is you can add equity, interest, and your own terms, which is what the borrower did here.Via adding $101,000.00 in equity, the borrower plans to sell the property for $300,000.00 for a 30 year amortization and have the borrower place a down payment of $15,000.00.

So there's no blanket prediction for the US as a whole except that if rates stay higher long enough to work through all of the 2.5 mortgages, housing may come down somewhat because it's virtually frozen right now. 

Both were converted from large SFH to multi family a long time ago.

Make sure it explicitly explains the process for termination if you are unhappy with their services, especially if they violate the terms of your agreement.3.