Where I am, it's tough to buy flips in the lower price ranges because buy/hold investors (myself included because I am one) draw that inventory leaving little meat on the bone for flippers.

If it's a more rural area outside of town I sometimes go a mile but that's the absolute limit for me at least.

My biggest fear is that someone will not pay their rent and put me at risk of loosing my properties.

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There's not enough info to advise on that, its also above my pay grade to make that kind of decision, I try to stick to facts, and that would seem to be an opinion for me at this point.

If there is enough meat on a deal - which there isn't in your example - a private lender may accept a higher LTV, perhaps in exchange for a piece of the profit in addition to the rental of her/his money.You are in a market where prices are crazy, but fortunately for the short term, so are rents.  

Financeexaminer,Email me at [REMOVED] and I will email the links to you...I don't think it is your computer, it's the board..

This error on their side is going to cost me at least $2k over the course of the year.I have a trail of everything in email conversations (including a complete list of my troubles with this unprofessional company).

However, that's some ways down the road for me at this point.For what it's worth, I'm of the school of thought that some regulation is a good thing for the STR market.  

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