Well, first, understand that my capitalization rate on my investment is totally irrelevant to anyone buying it, it's pure marketing eye wash because your cap rate will never be the same as mine.There is an inverse relationship to price, a high cap rate used lowers the price, a low cap rate increases price.This can be looked at on your financial calculator, enter a loan formula, loan amount, period and interest rate, solve for any variable like the payment, now increase the interest rate and solve for the present value or loan amount, you'll see that it is lower, lower the rate and you'll see the loan amount increase.

Good afternoon everybody!I'm in process of investigating my next investment property purchase, and would like input based on others  experience. My investment strategy focuses on multifamily properties with little cas...

Anyway, she said the ones that survived attached themselves to different city agencies, purely for survival and expanded into JV on city projects: Park and Recs, Metro, HUD/Fair-housing etc...Many still exits but are a fractured shell of what they once were.I asked her where is the funding/grants for new construct, she said there was none and or very little.

You should have no problem finding a bank that will give you credit for the expected rent if you can put 25% down as if it were a pure investment property, but then you are missing out on one of the benefits of house-hacking, as @Matt Slakey mentioned: getting a loan that allows you to put a lot less down.  

As a cash flow investment I'd definitely say it's a no-go.You would be looking at a purely appreciation play, I personally don't have an issue with that it's not my cup of tea though.

I think 3 bdrms will probably have greater appreciation and a quicker sale than a comparable 2 bdrm, but if we're talking purely rentals, our 2 bdrms have out performed our 3 bdrms in ROI.I haven't seen any appreciable difference in length of occupancy btwn our 2 & 3 bdrm units.

What I meant was that although I will be living in one unit, I wanted to analyze it as if I were purchasing it purely as an investment property.

we have built capital by living below are means, renting out our personals properties when we move and buy pure rentals that are shorts sales and undervalue. 

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They got passive income with 0 down or their living expenses covered, depending on how you look at it :)We than used our savings as the down payments for two pure rentals.