In DC, the process has much improved and took 6-8 months.

Our goal is to continually improve it, so feedback is good. 

Is it a smart idea investment to buy a SFH property with built in equity, make improvements to the home, and hold as a rental?

Is it a smart idea investment to buy a SFH property with built in equity, make improvements to the home, and hold as a rental?

Mortgage rates have increased in recent weeks, in the midst of the spring home buying season, as the economy has shown signs of improvement.

The best thing you can do is work to improve that score.

The $18K rehab costs would be added to basis for depreciation, assuming you did the improvements before you rented the property.

Hello everyone, I'm new to the real estate investing world, I've been doing armed security for the past 20 years, worked a lot of hours and just wasn't going anywhere, then i stubbled back onto Robert Kiyosaki YouTube channel, and membered learning about it some back in 2007, then started watch Ken McElroy learned as much as i could from him then i saw David as Ken's guest and that's what introduced me to BiggerPockets, and have been watching videos taking notes trying to learn as much as i can and trying to get started at the same time, and found some hard money lenders (because I knew I couldn't get a loan from a back with my credit score and just getting started) four of then said sure will give you the loan talk about being excited then they hit me with will give you 80% of the LTV and you have to put the 20% down, my mouth dropped and another guy said there's going to be a 15k PMI added onto it and after I explained I needed to figure out how to come up with the 20% plus the 15k he blocked me on Facebook, so i began asking friends and family for the loan but ended up at a dead end, so with one of the hard money lenders i spoke to and kept in contact with offered my a loan officer position and explained the pay and everything, and in my mind i was like oooo if i get 5 of these deals i could have 20k, which would be enough for a down payment for the LTV on a condo then do the BRRR strategy on it, so that's currently where im at now.

And where it further improves is the investor is getting in pre-value add, or pre ARV, so they get to share in the forced appreciation and, therefore, the upside.

Here is a link to a website that showcases a few of the improvements to our first investment property, A buy and hold we purchased back in late 2020 using our VA home loan.