Purchase price: $129,000 Cash invested: $5,000Condo we lived in and fixed up.

2) If you do owner-occupied cashout refi for best rate, you technically have to live in the home for 12 months before renting it out. * Some responders here may suggest not worrying about that and renting it out anyways.

and trailer stolen, workshop robbed 3 times, business bank account hacked and Not Insured (w a bank name like C#@$e), hip replacement, Botched oral surgery for sinus cyst 3 times, So Far, that caused an infection that kept me from working most of 2024 and just now recovering.SO Fire Sale February for me But I’m too broke to finish a punchlist to keep rental certificate open on top of living expenses and cover unexpected bills.Seeking micro bridge loan in the $5-10k range to be repaid at sale of house.I have another small single family paid off and rents for $950 as well.Any advice or suggestions for resources Greatly Appreciated 

Split the $20 to buy yourself lunch and dinnerIf you are on the road, daily per-diem should cover a lot of your day to date living costs.If they send you on the road, you can potentially airbnb your house.Best of luck!

Hopefully, not an expensive tenant or Fair Housing lawsuit.100% of what @Travis Biziorek states is true, but he left out a key fact - he lived in the Detroit area when he started investing here, so was able to self-manage and meet everyone he had to hire face-to-face.

I never actually went live on the site because of the 15% fee they wanted.

The alternative is to go with a single-family home, live in it for about 1.5 years, and then purchase another home while renting out the first one.

Any sober living investors out there willing to let me pick their brain on how to underwrite a potential deal?

Hey @Jerry Nogueras - I was in your shoes too, born in NYC, and lived between there and Long Island. 

South Carolina (where I live) is a great state for many things but not rental real estate.