Hi BP members,  I never followed market trend in the past and I would like to know : Do townhomes of comparable size, number of bedroom/bathrooms, same vicinity/neighborhood appreciate @ similar rate(%) as SFH? 

We got a decent # of requests but our booking rate was about 5-10% of the requests. 

Can a 12 Unit Multi-Family property be offered for sale according to residential property rates and not NOI ?

In my market, once rates come down, prices are going to shoot up, we just don't know when.

More affordable properties may cash flow well but take longer to scale.Rental rates in your market: Locations with higher rents (e.g. $2k/month) will require fewer properties than areas with lower rent (e.g. $800/month).

Best thing to do is get fixed rate financing if you can. 

Interest rate at 10%.  20 year fully amortized.3.

How is the crime rates?

so most people will have to be as leveraged as possible to scale (at the beginning). as in, keep your LTV high and focus on buying 'as much' ($$) RE as possible. this is if you're doing a pretty run of the mill REI strategy like buy and hold. i came across an interesting guideline once: if you could sell today and net 7x+ your annual true net cashflow, you should cash-out/refi, or sell/1031. think of it this way: if your portfolio in a year is worth 1m market value, and you owe 600k, and have a lender that will do a portfolio loan at 80% ltv, you could cashout refi and get 200k to play with (minus closing costs). when you compare the now-lower cashflow from the existing portfolio (higher LTV & maybe different rate), to what you can do with 200k cash, THAT'S where it gets fun. maybe you lose 1k/mo in cashflow on the original portfolio (literally just made up a number, idk), but you can gain 2500/mo in cashflow with that 200k.. then doing the cashout/refi earned you a net increase in your monthly profit of 1500/mo, plus you're getting debt paydown and appreciation on "more" real estate, probably getting bigger tax benefits, etc.

If the rents are under less than the mortgage payment they will lend you the money at higher rate.