When any other party gets involved which is almost always necessary to get a deal done, the margins get lessoned. 

In many cases when a recession hits or the market dips, those that have invested in the homes that cash flow the most end up in a better position than those that buy assets with a smaller margin.

The bank on the commercial side would be repricing at each 5 year anniversary (true 20/25 year maturity), based on the 5 year treasury plus a margin that would be assigned at closing.

As competition increases, margin / profits will inevitably decrease, the good properties will continue to do well, and the novice STR investors will probably get out of the game due to too much work for little gain.

Florida is also more landlord friendly than NY, by a wide margin.

One strategy I've used on a recent flip was to utilize a Margin line of credit on my taxable brokerage account.

Revitalized House in a great Location, A satisfied buyer, Healthy profit margin.

Although you can pull this project off the margins are very thin.

We feel fortunate on a number of fronts, but we felt nervous about the house appraising properly if we had a buyer using bank financing.The margin on this first build will allow us to pay off the rest of the land and will give us enough equity in the project so that the bank won't require anymore cash invested on our side to finance the other four builds.

Your rehab margins are razor thin and if the project goes over it will cost you even more out of pocket.