And it could cost many, many thousands of dollars in legal to eventually win or lose.

High interest rates are causing price corrections in specific markets across the USA that saw massive growth and transaction volume in 2020/2021 due to low interest rates.

Low electric costs and low epa costs.  

It costs me insurance and about $600 in taxes each year.

Is there money in building and selling individual properties as GC if you factor in holding cost, etc?

For example, the unemployment rate, relatively low, is 6.5% versus MA's 3.5%It's been a long time since I was more familiar with Springfield, so I'm not sure about the impact of the casino.In general, similar to other working class cities like Fitchburg, in Springfield I'd imagine you'd fine the following conditions:- Attractive Cap rates- Medium vacancy- You're paying a realtor or property management company to find tenants (in higher end cities the tenants pay the realtor fee)- Section 8 tenants -- could be a negative or positive, depending on your view.

DSCR rates (investor cashflow loans) would give you a fixed rate payment and allow you to pull that cash out from the rental at a lower cost.

Short term rental with cost seg study/ accelerated depreciation to offset W2 income.

Conventional should be a bit easier to finance with a low (sub $100k) loan amount. 

My quick analysis had the added cashflow taking several years to recover the cost of furnishing the unit on top of the added management required for a short term rental.