But, I'll reiterate one important point -- nobody knows where RE is headed in 6 months, 6 years, or 16 years; if you're break-even and 100% leveraged today, all it takes is a small drop in occupancy rates, a small drop in market rent or a small drop in market value to put you on the negative side.

The positive is you have diversification but the negative is you have scaling issues, you are an active versus passive investor, and you will work harder for yield.I think you should talk to a few people and weigh the different avenues.

One negative to this house - W/D hookup is in the garage.  

The house is synthetic stucco... which is a MAJOR negative, but it appears to be in good shape and we've had several people check it out including a home inspector and no one has found any issues....yet.  

It is true that if you do experience 50% of your gross scheduled rents going to expenses, capital and vacancy, and then you have to pay your debt service payment that you will be cash flow negative on many properties.

Very helpful.It has been instrumental in coming back from a rough foreclosure that trashed my credit.I bank with wellsfargo and I think it's like 12 bucks a month I get an email everytime a positive or negative item is listed on my credit I also get access to my score monthly.

The negatives are that the Ardent line item is a non-active external condo fee for external maintenance which varies each month based on work done.

We seen alot on the newspaper regarding some properties with high yield return but when we work it out, some of them shows negative cashflow.

Most common power tools, including regular table saws can be run off of a 110 power supply and if they have a 220 motor you can often put an adapter on the cord without having a negative effect on the motor.

Here is a simple formula:Gross scheduled ACTUAL rents / 2 = ~NOINOI - Debt Service = "Cash Flow"Just because the "cash flow" number above is negative doesn't make it a bad deal IMO.