But it also will never deliver double-digit returns in the boom times.

My local portfolio lender offers 1-3 year arm commercial loans with a 20 year amortization period for investment properties.

You can highlight the foreclosures or other non-arms length transactions in blue crayon.

@Weiwei GaoGo to IREM.org search for ARM certified property managers.

I went with a conventional 7-1 ARM refi for that reason, and it saved us over $400 a month(we also dropped MI).

The % of growth has shrink to single digit from double % since Q1 2012.

I will caveat this - my broker is AWESOME and doesn't charge me an arm and a leg to be an agent under him.....and this is just year #2.  

Real estate income properties are not a arm chair investment.

Although we have had a price shock here as a period of fast appreciation has the locals up in arms, the objective demographic picture looks much better. 

Hello, BP.My wife and I just closed on a 2/2 1,059 sq. ft. condo in Durango, CO where we will be living for the next 2-3 years, maybe longer. 5/1 ARM at 3.375, 15 year am, $188,000 purchase price, loan of $169,200, monthly payment of $1,199.