There's a few different ways to focus on a lower rate such as with house hacking and making the investment your primary residence, requesting a significant closing credit from the sellers for standard rate buy-downs (which I've had great success with recently), or utilizing lenders who offer short term rate lowering solutions such as 2-1 rate buy downs (again, ideally paid for by the sellers).

There's a big disconnect in Detroit's home prices vs the progress there, and I believe it will continue to close.

(Not just cash at closing but sales price minus selling costs, minus purchase price, minus improvements.)

Do you want something close to you that you can go look at for yourself or are you okay with investing in something far away that you would probably have to fly to if you wanted to take a look at it in person?

The lender will be looking for close to that amount.This is not a sub to deal at all.

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I eventually just closed my Stessa account and called it a day.

As you start closing deals, you will need to reinvest your profits into mailing lists and other scalable activities to grow your business.

When you do a traditional 1031 exchange you have 45 day identification period, to provide a list of potential replacement properties and 180 days to close on a replacement.

You can have multiple conventional mortgages and have a great credit score as long as you don't pay late or get too close to the maximum debt to income ratio.