If you can come in and do your job buy, remodel and sell well (=fast) they are making very good money on you.

Selling the property isn't part of my plan, as I intend to perform a 1031 exchange for a mountain home in the West closer to my retirement, which is still 8 years away.I would greatly appreciate your insights and advice on how to navigate this situation.

I’m not trying to sell anything, just help people get started, realistically. 

This is a very real value that you can cash in on by selling the property or pulling a HELOC and reinvesting.Appreciation details and assumptions:While real estate appreciation is not guaranteed, historical trends can offer some predictive insight.

I just got off the phone with one of his sells reps and couldn’t get enough information on whether it was worth taking the chance of buying it. $5,000.00 is a lot of money for a “it might work” chance. 

Rather than selling the house just 1 year after purchasing and not making a major gain, I decided to rent it.

I thikn this is just another ploy that these gurus sell because on its face its a way to purchase real estate with no money down.

So I purchased a fire damaged home from a wholesaler in September in the King Charles neighborhood. Paid $235k Budget is $510k for the build (high end build) ABV(after build value) $1.1milSo permits took about 1.5 mon...

@Kermaury MusgroveMy first rental property was renting out my primary residence instead of selling it when I moved.I agree with Bradley's comment.

Again a rehab of almost any property in Baltimore, given almost everything there is older than 1994 is gonna run you probably 120k & that’s before buying & selling costs, holding costs etc, there just aren’t margins to support that at least that I’ve seen.