Happy to provide you with averages for vacancy, what I use for maintenance, taxes, insurance and can even send you some videos on how to best estimate rent rate here haha! 

So the upside is a bit larger initially for a sale versus cash out refi.With refi, payment would come out to roughly $750/mo for mortgage, and estimated rent payment at $1100.PM comes highly recommended, well known to business acquaintances and family.Re: 1031, we already would have someone lined up in TX, if we decided to go that route.  

I honestly do not have firm numbers  for building out the downstairs for rental but my estimate based on experience would be around 75-100k  depending how much work I did myself.  

I'd rather have an 80% LTV 30yr fixed conventional than a 50% LTV HML or toxic neg am, commercial, private or seller-financing not conveyed to you properly.Reserves, in general I carry 3 months debt service plus estimated repairs and cap ex for the year. 

Buying a property is the easy part.Seasoned investors sometimes make errors on renovation cost estimates, myself included.

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I understand that a typical rental analysis takes the monthly rental amount, sets aside 5% for vacancies, estimates 50% for expenses, and then makes sure the remaining 45% pays debt service and leaves a profit.But I've noticed that mortgage calculators often include insurance and tax payments in their monthly mortgage payment estimates.

I've ordered the BRRRR book from BiggerPockets, and I've listened to BP Episode 327 where they do a BRRRR deep dive where David softly advised against this (@ 1:19:48 in BP 327) because it wasn't efficient, but I wanna learn more and see if it would be a good-enough way to get into real estate for someone in my position.I'm estimating that by the time I'm ready to buy--November 2022--I'll have $70,000 (not including my emergency fund) in cash for everything: cosmetic-only renovations, initial down payment, closing costs, etc.

The property is in distress due to the living there and we have thousands of dollars from mold estimate just to remedy which doesnt include the thousands it will take to refix the things they throw out and cut.

Any and everything - I am very open to learning what rules and estimates you like to adhere to - of course everything is subjective and is deal by deal” but would love to hear it.