Most real estate opportunity markets are created by a natural disaster, economic disaster, or local government failing to make their local economy adaptable / marketable on the big stage of competition.  

Citydata.com is an excellent resource to help you identify your markets and a site where you can try to identify economic, job, technological and population factors plus other important factors that may affect your long term investments.

It’s not all they do, of course, but for 1-4 families they do put a lot of weight on the sales comparison (comps) method.That might be a more economical way to approach it than paying for two appraisals (your own and the lender’s).

Can pay it off early.Estimated monthly income: $1500-2000Monthly total mortgage (principle + interest + PMI): $1800I've always wanted to house hack but I'm a little scared to make any big moves right now with the current economic/global uncertainty.

When legitimate economic drivers are creating above average appreciation, get your money back in.

With that I started to see what the economics were like for the area I was interested in and found that they were on the rise, with significant 10-15% appreciation values in the past 2 years.

Kind of wondering about how the economic recovery is going to come around after all this Covid stuff settles down.You: Yeah, I've been thinking about that too. 

So concept would be:- replace tenant meters with one master meter for the whole property- install solar on the roof- install submeters for tenants, and charge them the same as the PSEG rateYou have receiveables exposure to tenants, but then you get to collect RECs for solar and potentially save on the PSEG rate with a larger meter.It seems like the economics of this could be compelling since it would increase NOI significantly.Has anyone heard of this before?  

If you find a great below market deal where you can add value through rehab or maybe economically add a unit, it’s possible to break even or maybe make a little money.

If a bank will lease to you, then I would research the deal first to make sure it makes economic sense.