Just make sure their products align with your investing strategy, and get a feel for their guidelines so you can edit your boy box with your realtor so you do not waste your time chasing down deals that no lender will touch. 

My investment strategy revolves around viewing cash flow as a tool to build reserves for both short and long-term capital expenditures.One key aspect of wealth accumulation in real estate, as you rightly mentioned, is the gradual reduction of your principal mortgage balance by others and the accrual of forced equity and natural equity through market appreciation.I operate Elevation Appraisal in the valley and serve as an agent with Windermere Bozeman.

Dollar General and Dollar Tree have been building ~1,000 stores each in the U.S. each year for over a decade, and I've read people on the forums who have pursued strategies for building and leasing specifically to these players at a high volume.How is this rate of new builds sustainable, and how can we determine the point of saturation, when the pipeline ends?

Again- not profitable- this is not an investment strategy.

Note that I'm not asking this question looking for an excuse to give up on my dreams of real estate investing before I even start - I just want to go into things with my eyes wide open and adjust my strategies if necessary.Thanks in advance for your input guys (and gals!)

I want to use the new 5% conventional on a four-plex unit-to-house hack (MTR strategy) in Cincinnati, OH.

I say this because most of these lower barrier markets where the BRRRR strategy pencils the easiest a are stagnant on growth and/or have limited home ownership.

Seems like there is a big need around here for workforce housing from Amazon employees, hospitality, nurses and more.Always looking for new strategies for our investors, and for us. 

I am almost ready to start the 3rd R in the BRRRR strategy.

This strategy can offer diversity and lessen some of the difficulties brought on by expensive markets.Networking and Professional Guidance: Make connections with Manhattan's real estate groups, investors, and professionals in the field.