We saw no other alternative to protect our own investments and have been doing it for 10 yrs.

vs. the macro level (what will it do over the long term, 10 or 20 yrs).At the micro level, some areas will see a roller coaster while others will see a smooth ride with little or no appreciation for some period of time.How long?

Let them know what the situation is and I believe doing this they can lower the interest rate, give you a interest only loan for 3-5 yrs to make the payments lower.What really needs to happen also is that you need to find tenants to put into those vacancies.

I went through this 13 yrs ago on a building.

My lawyer (a friend) will set up my LLC, but it will cost over 1K to do so so I am looking for other options.My longterm girlfriend (12 yrs) and I are going to partner with her brother and sister in law in buying rentals.

I have used it for yrs.

I'm wrapping two underlying loans totaling 175K....my equity on top is 70K...the interest is 6.5%....I was initially going to carry 3 yrs now thought of 30 yrs for the income....but after coming on this forum this week thought I should rethink this.

I don't do any work with sellers unless the mortgage is fixed, 15 or 30 yrs.

It may cash flow good, but what is the property going to be worth 20 yrs from now?

I built that up over the yrs.