I have a rent drop box installed on the inside of the caller door with a mail slot to drop the rent envelope into.

This freed up future Fannie Mae financing slots - as you can only have 10 mortgages in your own  name through Fannie Mae  - and we were at 19 at one point between my wife and myself.  

But others that are only in the planning stages have gone to the back burner, perhaps never to surface again.When the stock market crashed in October 1929, many ambitious plans that would have changed the face of New York simply vanished.For real estate developers, 1929 seemed like a slot machine stuck in the pay position.

I'd like to do fill up all my conventional loan slots with properties like this.I'm also looking at 5-20 units properties, but I havent consolidated my criteria just yet on those. 

A combination of being out of state (although I will be relocating to Memphis to stabilize the properties), being out of Fanny slots, being 99% cash flow focused (looking for 25-30 amortization not 15), and dealing with asset prices from 40-60k make this pretty difficult.I spoke with a lady at a local bank in Memphis yesterday and she suggested something I hadn't thought of.  

A skillful investor can hedge risk in either activity, but it is hard to control things like interest rates and whether or not the government decides to issue tax credits for buying at certain time slots.

It wastes my time, the other agents time and the buyer and sellers time as I need to present all offers.If I was going to go to a casino to gamble (I don't), I could keep putting money into a slot machine and I might hit a big one but will probably go home broke. 

Ideally, the front, back and sides of each box would have a slot near the lower edge to accommodate the edge of the thin bottom.Get two decorative drawer fronts from the kitchen design department at Home Depot, Lowe's or some other place.

We own a couple dozen houses in Houston, some in our own names, and we have had to file vandalism insurance claims and have had NO issues with the insurance company paying the claim.Personally, I would max out all of my fannie/freddie slots before looking at portfolio lending as it is 30 year fixed money.  

As for the 8:30 time slot, you should be careful about knocking on any fore closure seller's door.