This is where most of my business is done.Bandit Signs - affordable guerilla marketing tactic but garners a lot of calls from tire kickers, retail buyers with unrealistic ideas, etc.Newspaper ads - I was running a penny saver ad a while back and it started to get very costly because I was told I cant test an ad for 2 weeks.

I am willing to keep paying the mortgage as long as I am protected.I was thinking of making a rent to own agreement with them since I cannot qualify for a loan yet.I am also considering adding my name to the title as joint tenants.I would really appreciate your thoughts or suggestions.Thanks

As a follow up to this post, I had someone call on my ad from craigslist.

I have been adding extra principal to the higher interest RE Loans.

You can wait 6 months (or up to 2 years for some lenders) to season the purchase to the point they ignore the purchase price and do a new appraisal... maybe you got a great deal or the price has appreciated enough you can refi at 75% without adding equity...

Real estate, mutual funds, gold, silver, options equity etc.

Have you looked into or researched the added costs and considerations to be mindful when managing lower income area rentals?

Came across this ad while looking for rent comps: http://baltimore.craigslist.org/apa/2588121845.htmlRenting a place to the first starnger, then evicting, not wanting to clean/fix/paint/replace carpet; Then renting the dump and then evicting, not fixing/cleaning/paintin; Renting as-is, evicting......

If there is only one or maybe two layers of shingles, and the roof is structurally sound, then adding another layer may be acceptable.

When i'm investing in lower income areas, even after a large rehab, it's automatically 500 added per year.