And no they are not buy and hold forever, they are just construct to sell or buy hold and sell.What am I missing out on?

Where I live I have incredibly low vacancy rates, obviously won't be the case forever, but in 7 years of owning our house we have never had 1 month of vacancy.

It feels like it’ll be forever before we are able to purchase another property as well as have enough saved for renovations and emergencies.

Just don't get stuck analyzing forever!

Hi BP fam! I am in search of a new primary residence. With inventory being so constrained in my town (Redondo Beach) I'd like to send letters to homeowners in a specific neighborhood I'm interested in. The neighborh...

If you are holding these properties forever, then depreciation without segregation works out to the same depreciation with segregation over 27.5 years.

I have realized that for the first project new investors take for ever to decide. and secondly did you follow the underwriting strictly as @Michaelblank suggests or did you go with your gut feeling and commonsense of course keeping the basics in mind.

They don't last forever. 

depends on your holding timeframe. the 10% capex rule comes from the idea that in the long run, your repair costs will average 10%. maybe you have no repairs for ten years, then in the tenth year you have repairs equal to 100%, your average is 10% per year. if you plan on selling in your fifth year, no harm in factoring in slightly less. if you keep it forever, will you start at 5% and raise it over the years?

ALOT of manual work performed that I do not feel I can't continue doing forever.