Thus were going  to buy 1-2 homes the traditional way and get cash flow going. 

I am working with an investment group who provides Private interest rate of loan,the interest seem to be higher (4.5%) than then traditional 30 year loan for investment properties(3.25%), it obviously  doesn't sound beneficial ?

If your going to use financing i would also strongly suggest finding a great bank that offers both traditional and Non/QM Portfolio loans. 

hey guys, I have two properties in Indianapolis. both were purchased 2 years ago for around 65K each, and both were bad choices (without being too self-critical...it was in the very beginning) In one of them, I now need to invest 20K to replace the roof, install a fence, and another major CapEx in order to bring it back to the market and find tenants. for the second one, the bid I received was 8K. it's important to mention that these bids have been prepared by my property manager so I believe they are a bit over-price.

My question is if it is possible to use traditional financing to buy the property for $100K, then after closing sign a promissory note with the seller for $450K.

First, you would narrow your choices down to the type of contractor, like General Contractor, and then you would focus on a specialty.Examples of general contractor specialties include design-build contractors, remodeling contractors, commercial contractors, or new home builders.

This gives the tenant a choice and usually the tenant will choose to take care of it themselves.

Hey all,I have been doing some learning about tax implications for owning rental properties and I had a question.Its my understanding that you can carry over net operating losses from year to year basically indefinitely until you sell one day and can write them off of your capital gains.I also understand that if you purchase an asset for your rental, say a refrigerator, you have the choice to either deduct the full amount for that tax year, or depreciate the refrigerator over a certain amount of years and take the deduction divided up between those years.My question is why would it ever be advantageous to depreciate an asset rather than simply deduct it for the current year, even if you are already operating at a loss, if those losses will just carry over indefinitely?

Most traditional brokerages do both residential and commercial, but there are stand-alone commercial brokers who do the majority of the commercial business.

Did you save up the down payment and get traditional financing through the bank?