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hi chaim. i have not bought any houses at a tax sale. i have however, bought a few after the tax sale. here in erie county new york, if you buy from a tax sale, it can be a great deal. however, whatever was left on the past due taxes, you now owe. hence, you just bought yourself a liability. i don;t know about anyone else here, but i can manage to create my own bills myself without buying anyone else's tax liability. so, watch out for that issue. it may just be a new york thing, but maybe not. one of our local municipalities here has their own tax sale auctions aside from the county. that one, if you buy from them, you get a clean slate, no past due taxes left. however, they like to start the bidding out at what was owed to them, so, there would be no " leftover" anyway. by the way, they sell very few of them. lol. i usually go back to them after the sale and offer to buy some of the " left over" properties, usually for pennies on the dollar and i get them. you think they would figure out to start the bidding low if they are gonna sell them cheap later on anyway. but, regardless, even after i buy them dirt cheap, i still get them with no left over taxes owed. also, you need to know if your state is a " redemption" state. i. e., can the owner come back later and redeem their house by paying the taxes?

Starting out I would buy the nicest 4 family that I could afford in an area that I wanted to live in.

Originally posted by @Kimberly T.

Disclaimer -- I'm paying debt off right now deferring an emergency fund and relying on a contract job that could go away tomorrow; however, my wife makes enough that we can afford our three properties if I'm not working.  

I do understand that the interest rate is typically lower for a 15 year mortgage, but if you can afford the note on the 15 year mortgage, you will actually pay the debt off faster by financing it on a 30 year amortization schedule because each payment would be an overpayment due to the lower monthly payment requirement for a 30 year mortgage.  

I am in process of buying a condo to help my kid who is unable to afford rent about 2000 per month and she would need for 4 years .

San Diego is an amazing place to live.That being said, it's a pretty terrible place to invest in buy and hold single family if you're looking for cashflow.The people who do buy and hold SFRs in San Diego fall under a few categories in my book:- People who bought back long ago or during the crisis and are able to maintain good rental cashflow- People who are speculating on appreciation and can afford to eat the risk and negative cashflow- People who can't do math

Originally posted by @Jesse T.

At a purchase price of $150,000 and 30% down, assuming 3% rent growth per year, 5% vacancy, 5% credit loss, and your total opex at 50% on a 30 year loan at 5%, factoring in your taxes and P&I, you will have positive NOI, but you won't be able to afford your debt payments.