There was also resentment from residents of surrounding areas and it was not long before the fences were knocked down, trees were stolen, graphite covered the painted brick and the properties continued to be revolving with tenants every few months.You really need to enlist the help of neighborhood centric organizations and businesses if you want o be successful long-term, in my opinion.best of luck

Continuing to look.

I thank the members of BP for helping me get to this point and the continued support over time.Well here are the numbers....

That's about as much leverage as I want anyway.As far as HELOC's go, I'm assuming that most people want to lock up long term fixed rate loans, not have a ton of floating rate debt at whatever point the worlds' lenders ascertain that the future US govt cash flows available to somehow repay the spiraling debt and unfunded liabilities (a mere $100T or $1M per household), are woefully and absurdly inadequate.

I can as continuing education.

Sam, the question to continually ask, "Is this the highest and best use of my money?"

You can cut your loses not and sell at a loss or let it continue to bleed you of money each month.

If America continues to buy into this nonsense, which has been the trend over the last 6 years, then landlords will have supreme pricing power and be able to buy rentals for less and less.

That's not to say they won't continue their run a little longer, but I wouldn't want to time it.What I don't like about precious metals is that nothing backs them up except perceived value.

I’d continue to honor my offer if seller agrees to compensate to some extent.