.- Monthly cash flow from day one- More properties that are fully separated metered -- gas, electric, hot water all metered for individual units- Significant increase in property management -- evictions, late rent not because somebody simply forgot to press "send," potential domestic issues, issues between tenants, etc.

Las Vegans Paying Highest Income Percentage on Rent: Nearly 58.3% of renters in the Las Vegas area spend more than 30% of their income on rent, considered "housing-cost burdened."

Rents stagnated or dropped in most areas, and this is on top of all the rising costs, especially insurance and interest rates.

We plan to live in one unit and rent out the others.

He asked the right questions and I could tell he was serious, so I decided to team up with him, and we purchased this run down three flat, and gut renovated the bottom unit, while increasing the rent on the top two units.

1st of all corporations own less than 2% of single family homes, they have actually reduced thier share of buying recently, now investors continue to buy up properties, it’s just more mom & pop types, all that said the housing market is in an extremely strange place, I could make strong arguments for prices pulling back, reaccelarting, or being basically flat, the biggest thing I’d advise is looking at you payment, comparing that to what would pay in rent, figuring out how long you plan to be the house and making an decision based on that, generally in that under 400k price point, breakeven for buying a property seems to about 3-5 years if you plan to stay in the house longer than that, bite the bullet & buy, if not rent.  

I’m not sure if doing this I will lose leads on new tenants and increase vacancy.

Im looking to purchase a mobil home to rent to section 8 tenants.

If you’re not going to make the smart move of selling tax free, and make the questionable move of being a landlord in Ca just because you already own the home…A) No LLC, it won’t help with taxes, liability, or anonymity but it will increase the cost of insurance, taxes, and any financing  (and maybe the bank calls the current mortgage  due.)B) Get an umbrella policy if you are worth more than $1M, maybe $500k  C) Don’t even THiNK about doing this yourself.

But most investors are looking to rent out the property to cover at least these expenses and cash flow on top of this.