Straight rentals can be hard to make the numbers work.  

Often, I'll work from 8a to Midnight for six weeks straight with one day off a week (add commute time and it's really a doozy of a day) - it can be exhausting.

(And I don't know who to ask who can give me a straight answer!)

Perhaps I'm being harder on capex and maintenance than others, I don't use the percentage rule, I calculate capex and maintenance as straight $2750 for SFH and $4000 for duplex.I'm a bit shocked at reading all of these posts on BP about how much cash everyone is getting per property, and would like to find out what's the best way to replicate the same strategy.

I had a buddy complete the paperwork for the HomeStyle loan, it was reasonably straight forward.  

Flipping RE is not as straight forward as it seems.

I bought in 2003 for 560K, it went up to about 800 in 2006, then back down to about purchase price for a few years, then a straight shot up to where it is now.

Straight private money loan for 5 years.   

We have actually had worse luck here with just straight rental properties.But yes, we will have to chalk this one up to a loss unfortunately.

Joe is a straight shooter and tells you like it is.