If you intend to House hack to start inquiring your rentals, you can do FHA with 3.5% down as an owner occupant, however if your first purchase is a SF purely for investment, you may be looking at conventional with 20% down or private funding.

Purely cash-flow?

Now I do believe Jacksonville is well positioned for continued appreciation in the coming years, but that is pure speculation.

Otherwise what is a pretty good house hack turns into a loser as a pure investment.Vacancy 10% (your unit included)Prop.

He'll be giving us an overview of the state of the Missoula market, as well as answer any questions you have.There will be no attempts to sell you anything, this is purely a way to help build the Missoula investor community.

From a purely rental income standpoint, getting $3-4k per month on an asset that's worth ~$820k is NOT very appealing for most investors.  

If it's purely to be able to deduct the interest on your taxes, it's not a good idea.An example: You paid $100 in interest, then deducted the $100 from taxes. 

As we have a transient career we invest both way through personal properties and pure rentals.We invest both locally and long distance.

I calculated he right price for a pure investor would be in the $1.2m range after expenses.

The two houses I lost was purely speculation I got in wanting to help friends.