- Everything takes longer and costs more than you expect, especially when you throw in a global pandemic. - Builders are not always organized and good at record-keeping, so be careful when partnering with one. - Do NOT overbuild.

Also I put emphasis on not mentioning too much about what your doing: alot of contractors want little to do with investors and flippers.

As a person with extensive use experience of such, I will say at worst would take maybe as much as 1hr to track an heir, emphasis on "an" as the correct tool in this arena, or more specifically the one I used, I could dig up the last 30 years of a persons history, every address, co-habitant, everyone in 1 degree of separation, there 30yr residency/ work. sphere and so on and so fourth. 

At this stage of the market I'm putting a lot more emphasis on debt service coverage ratio (a measure of risk) than cap rate or cash on cash return, at least in my own analyses.Also, since this question frequently comes up with owner-occupied properties, even though you're going to live there I'd analyze all the units as if you're not going to live there so that you can look at it on an investment basis compared to other properties, rather than mixing in your own personal tax/financial situation into the property analysis.

.- US Citizen residing outside of the USA, paying taxes in another country on global assets and owning a rental property in the USAThis is the situation I am currently in and wondering if anyone could help me out or at least hear your experience.

This would imply that in the upcoming months the global market will have lower productivity. 

My emphasis is much more heavy on the quality of neighborhood and the cashflow.Good luck!

I'm new to investing but have loved listening to bigger pockets for years and am ready to pull the trigger on a HELOC and begin my investing journey. I can probably get around 80-95k on a heloc. I know nobody can time...

I guess that I'm impressed they not only built out a model that could get with in 7% of FMV for that many homes, had an effective UX that made ppl want to use it, got a system up and running to take possession and make ready for sale that number of homes across such a geographically diverse area during a global pandemic which changed the way ppl work and lead to crazy home prices.

Yeah, he just claimed he's from a company called Global West Funding.