But my thinking is trying to find a good agent who might find some off-market deals who are willing to work with me unless it’s seriously not worth the effort.FHA vs.

Trying to explore if there are still pockets in Nova where the returns make sense, given the high prices.Nova is extremely low risk, which is why cap rates are so low, the issue I honestly see with nova right now is the cap rates are often times below what you could get in a bond, and leverage is hurting you right now, I wouldn’t say I Would recommend not investing in nova or investing in high risk market, but personally I’d rather get something in the 5-7 cap rate range and take on slightly more risk to do so. 

Leveraging Ernest's local market expertise, we quickly assessed the property's potential.

Laminate is definitely a good choice depending on the type of neighborhood and who your marketing too. 

Those types of properties and those size of lenders won't touch the markets we invest in or our customers. 

@Esi Okpetu uhm, they are two TOTALLY different target markets!

That seems pretty low, though I don't know the market.

The market is promising, and my corporate accommodations can elevate your returns.

Hello Bigger Pockets Community,My fiancé and I are beginning our real estate investment journey but we live and work in one of the most expensive markets in the world - even though we are 20 minutes from San Francisco there is not a property in our city listed at under 1 million (yes).So I recently took a trip to Costa Rica for the sole purpose of identifying regions we would like to invest in and ended up finding a fantastic little condo for our starter property.

Yeah that is the tough part, this deal is in a market I haven't been in before.