Many, but not ALL are only focused on the commissions he/ she will earn and not focused, on your best interests.

Hello fellow members,As you know, building a strong team of trusted professionals is one of the main ingredients to growing your real estate portfolio and helping others to do the same as well if you're in the service industry.I'm currently looking for an excellent mortgage broker/agent/specialist.

When a tenant meets you they need to understand that house rent is not just additional earnings for you, it is your business, which you are taken seriously.

I will consider this a learning experience and perhaps an experience BP member can earn some money. 

This forces lower income earning individuals out of the area.  

Secondly, if you haven't talk with your lender, you probably will not get an 80% loan up front, you may have to get an earn out.

While we still earn a respectable W2 income along with passive net cash flow from rental portfolio, the reduction in consumption has proven powerful in increasing our rental investment potential.  

Pretax 401k contributions reduce your taxable income in the year of the contribution whereas Roth 401k contributions are made with after tax funds, but the earnings grow tax free. 

At the moment, our capital is sitting in a low-risk, readily liquid investment which is returning a 5.2% ... or it is sitting in USD money market fund earning squat (I just exchanged a lump this morning and made 22.5% thanks to our oil contaminated Loonie).As such, when we analyse any "deal" that comes our way, the opportunity cost of that capital is a minimum of 5.2% ... when you adjust for risk, etc. we end-up with a hurdle rate in the range of 6 - 9%.  

Spending the money just made me more determined to earn it back as quick as possible.