I like these strategies because they involve creative re-framing and combine purchase-end profit, stable rents, and sales-end gain: A)to buy the largest multi-unit you can where rents are lagging behind the current market, and reframe it (if tennants are on sec8, they may gladly be rotated into updated, if costlier, units)- then sell for cash to leverage larger multi-unit, repeat.

You need to be flexible in a small market, understand the basics, installment transactions, options, portfolio financing available and the combined loan to values allowed as you maight carry some back, if the local landlord isn't interested you need to look to others, partner with contractors for repairs, you just need to work a little harder to make up for what might be lacking.

Persistence in my opinion is the biggest factor, but must be combined with the ability to make the changes necessary to keep up with the market.

Combine that with your personal savings, you could use the cash to buy another property for more cashflow.

After a couple months of nail biting, I'd have it back up to a comfortable amount combining net rents and personal income. 60% of the vested portion of my 401K works fine to cover reserves for the bank.I think you need to have more money available as you get more units as the risk increases up to a point where a pool of money shared amongst all the units works fine.

Redfin adds the real estate sales component to the mix and combines real estate search with real estate sales.

If you combine the properties they come out to a positive cash flow with expense at 52.2% of income.

I then combined funds from that HELOC with some of my own cash to purchase another rental outright.

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