Here are some data points below from the past month:🏠📈 Real Estate Update 📉🏠Here's the latest market report (based on single family homes):🏡 Mortgage Rates:30-year conventional rate today is 6.63%30-year VA rate today is 6.20%💰 Median Sales Price:May: $475,995June: $485,000July: $487,483📈 New Listings:May: 2,141June: 1,920July: 2,032📅 Median Days on Market Until Sale:May: 12June: 13July: 14📦 Months Supply of Inventory:May: 2.4June: 2.3July: 2.6

If you don't have a plan for all the money on a cash-out, then you may be better off taking less and holding onto your equity.

Blake:Disclosure - When I was buying SF rentals years ago, I was a Longhorn client.The real test is your staying-power though a bad market. 

Know of an efficient way to identify hard money lenders that will solely focus on an 80K loan against a property purchased at $256K with me bringing the rest of money to the closing table?

Kudos to you for diving into real estate with such enthusiasm!

Your best bet is to get a high-performing real estate agent to market your property for you.

I can understand that the cost of the home over time shouldn't really exceed the cost of a home outright - as you said, the money is in the TOH park sale in the future.

Hi,I want to get started in real estate investing and so far I am mostly interested in long term rental properties and Multi-family properties.

Yes, it's BP buzzword bingo -- but also a real deal. 

Would you lose a large chunk of money?