Buy buying distressed property and dealing with what comes with it has allowed me to be able to make up my full time corporate salary with better hours and more family life.All in all, the answer is the pain worth it for the financial reward ?

They are promoting the opportunity to investors and getting paid for you to take the risk.It may be completely legit, but your risk definitely comes into play in this set-up and your reward needs to be big.    

This rewards long term tenants and keeps them under market enough that they can't find a new place as easily, and continues to close your gap.Another tip is to offer to renovate the bathroom for them while they live there.  

LOL.. but I hope it works out for you  Resturant bizz is a tough one for sure.. but can be rewarding in the right location.

The tenants are great and it's cashflowing nicely so I want to do a nice upgrade for them as a reward of sorts. 

Similarly, if you take 27% of 40% you arrive at 10.8%, so we split the difference and adjusted our offer by 10.4% from a income capitalization at market rent.While we have paid "goodwill" to owners who present properties which have been updated and/or are running at potential {meaning we've paid a little higher than our analysis indicated would be optimal} I do not believe in rewarding owners who present a mismanaged, poorly maintained property.Now, if you have a condition of sale which stipulates you must keep this tenants rent fixed, 66% below market for five years, simply take 66% of market rent times 60-months and deduct it from the purchase price. ;-)@Jim Costa:  It's a duplex, the bank/lender and their appraiser will relay of setting the valuation based upon comparative sales and not income capitalization.

Here are a few things you'll want to consider before jumping into the vacation rental business.Locationprice pointrental ratescompetitionlength of rental seasonlicensing-permit requirements (if any)  It can be very rewarding financially.Aloha,Jeff

Currently, I coordinate sub groups in Philadelphia for DIG and it has been rewarding in so many ways from the Speaker to the attendees.Let me know if you have any questions.Regards,Joe Scorese

The developer does all the work and provides the financing so he gets the lion's share of rewards, but it's still worth it to the land owner to get a large check each month for doing nothing.

I am risk averse to start with and I realize that risk-reward go hand in hand.