Depending on the level of your income, rental tax loss through depreciation may even lower your AGI.

Purchase price: $250,000 Seeking a fixer upper and glad we got it first day on the market, a bit of luck.

This meant that the appraiser would then take the current rents, which couldn't service the higher debt level.

So I thought let's do it on my Dutch market.Example; https://www.funda.nl/koop/breda/huis-40055057-wilr...Single family dwelling; 125m2, upper 60's, 5 bedrooms, 200k (euro).I looked up similar houses meaning; (same age, rooms, +/- 10m2 more or less, similar location)Rents varried from 890-1045.

I’m having trouble finding a good “fixer upper” loan for investment properties though.

Neighborhood doesn't look like a war zone, the $25k in likely rehab may care some people off as an investment in this level of property. 

You are looking at about $250k-$275k for a piggy back 2 level Townhouse.Ray

But I was just discussing with @Brendan Lawrence just last week, that now with a certain amount of wealth, maybe it is time to shift towards taking on some more risk in the portfolio after getting over a hump of a getting to a net worth with a certain comfort level. 

I do not think my market will have much of a decline, but just leveling off and making sellers more reasonable would be nice.

Landlords can become tired and complacent over time...............one or more units stay unfilled for an extended period, or rents are left at existing levels due to laziness-it happens!