Ar you thinking about offline conversations while playing golf?

I have learned a lot and want to continue to learn and help others as much as this resource and community has helped me.

I would also continue to escalate the issue with the 2nd. 

In general, if you are looking for build, then you will need to either build slowly with 20% down and continue to reinvest your extra cash flow or find other ways to purchase properties. $115k is a great start, but it will be eaten up quickly in 4-5 SFHs between down payment, repairs, closing, and entity creation.

I've been maxing out my 401k for about 2 years now (and will continue until I leave).

I want to continue down this path even more so now that I've moved back to LA from Denver, Colorado and keep making friends of the REI space.

That is negative $100 cash flow.To continue to hold, I could refinance to lower mortgage to about $1000, increase rent to $1600, cancel pool service and cash flow about $360.Or terminate lease for a struggling single mom and take the cash to turn into a larger investment. 

Unfortunately, there isn't enough investor or owner occupied money being poured into parts of these sub-communities so they continue to remain stagnant in terms of growth. 

My worries comes to play cause I jus brought my house last yrs with a fha loan.

I'm not super wealthy, but I do have some spoils of the trade to play with.I live in Malden, and have been educating myself to get into flips and rentals (loving BRRRR) in the area (Melrose, Medford, Malden, Everett, Saugus, Lynn, Stoneham, Reading, Woburn, etc.).I have never officially invested in real estate, but I have owned first and second homes for many moons, and they have been good to me so far.I've learned enough in my studies to know that real estate investment in this area and time is far from a no-brainer.