The lion's share of your payments will go to interest, barely affecting equity.If you put more down, your equity would be higher, but the increased cash invested would adversely affect NWROI. 

In the 18 months I had third party management, I was barely making any money AND working harder to try to get my managers to actually operate the properties well.It takes a lot of time to get a manager to understand what your priorities are and how you want them to manage the property. 

In smaller buildings, the association is often barely functioning and may have no reserves.

This allows the participants to share in the risk, work, and rewards. 

Hello BP community,I am an out-of-state investor who is interested in participating in networking events in Cleveland OH.

In most cases the tenant, however I sometimes have the landlord maintain the lawn because sometimes tenants will do the bare minimum when it comes to mowing and watering, If it gets bad the city gets involved.

Newbie looking to invest from abroadI discovered the BP gold mine a few weeks ago and have been mostly reading, it is time to start participating in the conversation!

Well from there it was excuse after excuse and he has barely even started work today marked day 75.

@Steve Morris I saw a video in which the guy said that if you get them to sign a memorandum and they tried selling to someone else that you could file it at the courthouse and prevent them from selling to someone else, and so I was just curious as to whether that was an option that any real estate investors participated in.

@Jim Gurtner I think where this becomes an issue is when you go to refinance out, and when you pull all of your equity out, your expenses are so high that you barely cashflow.