Either the condo fees are way too high or the location is not ideal and the rent is significantly lower than the mortgage.

Offering 95% to a money partner could be an option to close your first deal, especially if it helps you secure the necessary funds.

At the end of the day, you own an asset with certain characteristics (location, quality, level of effort, number of people to interact with, ease of liquidation). 

Those with 5 or less physical locations.

Purchase price: $82,000 Cash invested: $17,000 Early 1900s duplex located in Toledo, Ohio.

That only ties up the property of the seller until you're able to locate a buyer which could never be.

That's the highest allowed for loans without security.

I used a real estate agent to locate this property.

For the rest of this post, I will assume your goal is financial freedom.There are two location requirements for financial freedom.Rents outpace inflation.The rent continues for the rest of your life.Here is the problem with investing where rents do not outpace inflation.I was evaluating a location and determined the average rent growth rate was about 2%.

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