This will help you gain a better understanding of the loan process, what lenders expect/look for, and the tools that they have to help you succeed.

Delayed financing is an important tool in real estate investors’ arsenal.

One of the tools I feel is critical that makes or breaks an investment property is a spreadsheet looking at the entirety of the financials.

Understand that although larger repairs might involve more steps, more time and more tools, houses are just collections of parts and you'd be amazed how much can actually be fixed with five minutes and a screwdriver.

It will be difficult for you to find an “off market turn key” deal in the traditional sense of cold-calling, driving for dollars or whatever other creative lead generation tools that exist for finding motivated sellers.

The details are below: • Estimated Rehab: $20k• Funds left over after 3.5% down & closing costs: $4k• I plan to do all the work myself to save costs• I am dead set on doing all rehab prior to househacking • This is my first rehab so I plan on borrowing tools where I can.

BP might have one too but I am familiar with ours as a valuable tool for helping lay this out.5.

For example, a property that doesn't cash flow at all, but doubles in value in 10 years returns arounds 7% in appreciation alone.The 50% and 2% "rules" are handy tools, when understood and used properly.

The federal reserve as an entity does have the tools to increase or decrease the rate to whatever is necessary to hit any target rate of inflation so it may not be if they'll be successful.

And be sure to tell everyone exactly what your looking for as an investment, you never know who can point you towards a deal.There are other ways to source deals and tools you can use... im sure if you use YouTube University and dive deeper into BP you can figure it out.Moving to your second question...