We do feel like we are throwing money away helping her with rent when we could be putting it towards an investment property instead, but there is always the fear of pulling the trigger on the first home that isn't your primary. 

The potential return % does not appear to justify the risk.

I have been replying to posts for eight year and trumpeting the benefits and risk mitigation of adding value and people respond to me like I've lost my mind.

I know in theory the process of BRRR, Buy & Flip, Buy & Hold, et... but I am very worried about screwing it up and really putting myself and my family in the hole ( I have a wife and a 1 year old son).

If you want to talk risk, put down the PE talk for a second and look at commercial real estate, inflation, higher defaults, forever wars, growing china dependence and the economy and tell me that real estate would not be effected equally across the entire board when the house of cards fall, yet dividen stocks (this is a fact) tend to out perform the rest of the market due to hardships not really keeping people from drinking coke and eating at fast food chains.

They believe putting it on the MLS will make the most sense to them.Like everyone else, we are always willing to partner with people that want to learn through experience and find more propductive ways to find deals.There is money to be made in real estate in this current economy, if you find deals that have not yet hit the MLS.

The DOTs position is that we should have consulted with them concurrently in the design phase and because we didnt we took on this risk.

Put safety first by looking closely at homes, guessing fix-up costs, working with good workers, and having backup plans for surprises.

After calculating all of the properties, the average cap rate is around 5% and the COC ROI is always negative (I am putting down 25% for a DSCR loan).

I live in columbus and miami about half the year both. economic activity in miami is like 20x what columbus is. net migrations by number of people are waaaaaayyyy more in miami. columbus has 10 out of the 14 growing counties in ohio. it's not just one county or city, it's the entire MSA. cool chart but definitely would never put Detroit in the same category as either.