He's got another investor who he's done 44 deals with just this one investor, just not as many down the FHA road.My biggest thing is I need to come up with the down payment and cash reserves at this point to make my numbers work and for the bank to feel comfortable lending to me.

This will make a difference in repair costs.Jon Klaus, my biggest fear with these houses is compromised plumbing.

Hello Everyone,

I am a HCV/Sec 8 renter on the threshold of leaving my (cherished) property manager of nearly ten years for a new home. Over the past decade, I have become accustomed to a high standard of landlord ex...

- Your biggest enemy in 4-units will be turn-over.

In my opinion, the biggest impact is that they're limiting your ability to pick up additional units at below market prices.

The biggest and most important lesson about money in the class was you had to get a better job to make more money.

Somebody just builds a nicer, newer place farther out (although eventually this may change as people will tire of driving farther and farther).Also, property taxes are the second biggest expense after mortgage and at roughly 1.25% of purchase price with a 2% capped yearly increase, CA taxes are much more favorable than say Texas, which are roughly double and have no cap or even Indiana, which charge investors a much higher property tax rate than homeowners.Finally, costs can be a little lower here.

With limited resources I want to get the biggest bang for each buck as I could lose all motivation to buy any more tomorrow or I could find myslef locked out of financing for one reason or another.

The biggest unknown on being able to estimate cost is obviously the land.

This will be the biggest driver of change since the Internet.This will eliminate the #1 killer of Americans ages 4-34.Very few will own cars as the nearest car will pick them up cheaply and drop them off at the door of their destination.Goods will be shipped for almost nothing.