Duplexes are not passive income, and one major repair will eat your entire year's cashflow. 

The property may not cash flow as a long term rental, but it may does as a short term rental or a mid term rental, maybe instead of finding a move-in ready home you could find a fixer upper for a lower price, increase the value of it and increase the rental income...

Is the fee charged on actual rental income, or projected?

Matt totally agree when my company was Heavy into buying court house steps the most effective thing I bought was the dump trailer with power lift... hands down.. if you don't have power lift your guys are stuck at the dump for and 1 hand unloading the trailer or truck.. with the power lift you lift it drive forward its dumps in 5 seconds our done.. great thought there.. and when I retired from that end of the business I sold it for what I paid for it..

And not just that, lets say we pass 2023/2024 with lot of foreclosure that we expected.Lets say we move forward to 2033, Fed rate at 2033 lets say 4%, cap rate for apartment 3% (after going down from cap 6% in 2024), we would hit the same issue again and by that time, most of today's GP would move to different job or industry anyway, or retired.

Profit comes from the property's appreciation after improvements.Buy & Hold: Acquire properties for rental income and long-term appreciation.

- Lina Hi Lina,Your situation is very common, and deciding between selling or investing more into your property to potentially increase its income is a pivotal choice.

This approach allows us to analyze the market dynamics, particularly in terms of pricing, providing us the flexibility to adjust rates optimally to balance both occupancy and income as the property enters the market.

The ones that have stayed on the market that I'm interested in come with some skepticism as to why they're on the market for so long.

Hi All,Newbie here. 55 yr old planning to retire in 2 years, learning about real estate investing in order to have a source of steady inflation-proof cashflow (in addition to stock dividends) prior to taking social security at age 70 - so I don't need to sell stock investments.