I practically eliminate their time consuming need to search for and negotiate with home sellers all together.

I used an FHA loan at 3.5% down to purchase the triplex.For house hacking, you want to try and find a property that will eliminate or reduce your housing costs of what you're paying now.

I'm reading a lot about focusing on cashflow in Brandon's book, this blog, etc. and a lot of properties seem to only have $200/month or so in positive cashflow, so it seems like cashing out 80% of your equity could easily raise the mortgage payment to the point of eliminating the cashflow.Am I missing something?

It's those maniacs that buy homes cash via quit claim deed off of craigslist that really get screwed.Make sure your property manager is a licensed real estate brokerage.Google Clayton Morris and/or Morris Invest for a cautionary tale of what not to do when buying turnkey real estateUnderstand you can not eliminate all risk, only mitigate it.

For the FHE eliminate the partner and you qualify, but then you need to also confirm it will meet the self sufficiency test which is another pitfall.You can look at the eligibility guides to confirm what the conventional criteria are and DPs are 5% for SFR, 15% for duplex and 25% for 3 to 4 unit.

That would have eliminated private placement investing in IRAs.Section 138314 said IRA owner cannot invest his or her IRA assets in a corporation, partnership, trust, or estate in which he or she has a 50 percent or greater interest.

I would start with Wikipedia's list of metro areas with a population greater than 1 million and apply each of the following elimination filters.

Since the min downpayment for a 2nd home is 10% and rentals are 20%, that eliminates 1 of the metric already for all 2nd homes/NOO's. 

If you're looking for a 3/2 Tudor, you can quickly eliminate the 2bed/1bath trailer house or the fourplex next to the strip club or the commercial mechanic shop.

Hello - I am wondering if there are steps that an HOA can take to eliminate a condotel designation without eliminating the right to short term renters?