If you're patient you'll find/buy/create a good deal and be smart enough to be dangerous.

There are a few sharks as well, but as long as you're smart they're pretty easy to spot.First piece of advice when investing in Baltimore is to really know your comps - just a couple of blocks can sometimes make a huge difference in ARV/rent.

I don't even have a TV by choice. 

Whatever you want to do post your number, first, lets have a look and don't forget that a huge chunk of your mortgage payment is applied to the principal and this makes a huge difference when crunching your numbers.But...I still try to stay away from single-family homes when the home will not appreciate in value, substantially, but as a previous BP member posted, you still may be better off buying than renting if that is your only choice and cannot buy an investment property that generates a profit almost exponentially compared to a single family home for your personal residence.

Well, last I studied, measles, was essentially eradicated from the planet, via a little thing called A VACCINE... ...that is, until some really smart people decided to not provide the vaccine to their young children -which you know, worked really well, causing measles outbreaks, amongst those clever ones, to the extent we've not seen in 50 years.  

I've been working with a really smart agent and he recommended Johnston as one of the nicer areas in RI for multi family investing.

I plan to use my VA home loan and am thinking it would be a smart idea to team up with another veteran to afford a larger (3-4 family) building instead of just getting a 1-2 family building (depending on the prices that I run across). 

The ball gets placed back in their court and they have the choice to further negotiate, say no we stand by the price you offered, or terminate the contract altogether and you get your earnest money back if they doHope that helps, had a realtor try and tell me this as well

I do and have done both and find the STRs much better, not just because of the money.Of course with STRs you are much more limited in choice of property when you are purchasing.....it is all about location, even more than traditional RE.

We also give our owners a choice between using our provider or one of their own if they don't trust ours.