Purchase them from a cash flow basis and not a "home" basis and you will save more money then renting because included in any rent will be all operating expenses including those taxes, utilities(sometimes), ect.Do not count upon appreciation in your calculations as we are in an declining market overall.

I could be wrong but I think the 100 per door rule is geared more toward multi unit properties. a SFR could be rented out to one family, or you could rent out the bedrooms to different people, either way I think a SFR counts as more than one "unit" so a SFR should generate at least a few hundred a month but maybe I'm wrong.

I've been asked too many times to count "What happens at the end of the lease if I can't get a loan to buy the house?"

The view counts going to be high on this one.

., an owner occupant with a conventional loan), they will need to count on holding it at least six months, and perhaps a year.

You certainly should not do this to an individual seller who's counting on you to come through.

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It states that if your gross rent is $1000/ month, you should count on only $500 a month income after taking out expenses such as maintenance, tax, ppty insurance, ppty management fees and vacancies.

Over the years I can't count the number of deals that I put together from my rejects.My father in law was a long time life insurance salesman and one day he opened up a desk drawer and it was filled with letter size paper with handwritten notes regarding suspects/prospects that he had run into, he would check with the top sheet when he had down time and if nothing new put it on the bottom of the pile with any new notes.His sales manager said to throw them out and forget them but his list of clients had a star next to some names and he told me they were former dead leads or referrals from former dead leads and I saw a lot of stars.

Again, we have a lot of properties that we are interested in, but obviously because we are new we don't have the cash in the bank to go and pay for a property outright, so we will have to count on loans.