Tons of equity comes over the hill from Northern California, as well as investors who flip and buy and hold. 

I have been having some success negotiating seller paid closing costs to help with rate buy down as well. - If you see a property that makes sense, I encourage you to get an offer in ASAP.

Seasoning on the money from the personal loan could be a factor as well. 

The rentals of those LLCs run very well.

AlanI’d like to be able to set up several cameras - perhaps at least 4 - An armed guard would resolve the issue as well :) 

We do hundreds of lease renewals a year this way and it works well.

We are hoping to use some of the flip profit for a rental in the next few years as well.1.

I am in Northern Virginia as well and am about to close on my first property.

It works a decent bit for them, and we have used it in the past with success as well. 

We run our own portfolio as well and have zero issues.