Supply continues to be low and demand high as conversion of homes into short term rentals is high.  

The PEX/pipelining thing is confusion between water supply (pex) and sewer lines (cast iron, clay, even tar paper)..

The downside to these is that you will be paying much higher interests rates (normally >10%) so you want to get in and out with the rehab as fast as possible, which I'd imagine can be difficult during COVID where supply chains are all sorts of messed up. 

Hi Azeem,If it were mine on 04/20/2021 it would be Bye Bye, and I'd be financially (and with the Covid--have the supplies on hand) ready to turn the unit.

That greatly affects supply.

Partner is a private lender or debt partner for supplying 70%-100% of funds.100% management/acquisitions by our team.

The goal is to work with my parents for my first few rental properties (they will supply more of the down payments and I will be in charge of finding and managing the properties).

They use tests of who controls the work, how they were paid, did they supply their own tools, do they work for others, who supplied the materials, is there a contract, etc...   

And yet the City of Austin does nothing to help increase new build supply.

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