IMO.When you get over 3,000 ft, seems you can never have too many bedrooms so long as the living spaces are on the larger size of sufficient for the price range.

Maybe, like a watered down holodeck, the walls could show real-time images of a campground near a lake or a outdoor mall in France.

Pre-foreclosurecode violations owners behind in water or tax billsrent courtvacant and or boarded up housesestatesDirect mail to any of the above, to absentee, or out of state ownersnon arms length transactionsnominal transfersBandit signs"we buy houses" adsNetworkingReal estate clubsAuctionsDriving for dollars is a good one.

:1) Based off experiences with the type of SFR to invest; I'm thinking of moving my wife and I into a nicer suburb (housing ranges from 120k+, rents in the $1.2k-1.8k range) - but won't make the jump until I find something around 100-120k so I can rent it out in the future if I chose to move.If I did this, I would rent out my current townhome (purchased for $75k & built in 2003, rents for about 950-1100 in very desirable location in Jacksonville)...Option 2 would be based on trying to leverage more cashflow to help feed future investments:2) stay in my townhome, and drop 25% on a SFR around the 70-80k range that would rent for around $800-1k a month, but the homes in these areas would be ones built in the 1970s concrete block style.I feel like former option would best my investments for building wealth as I do not currently depend on real estate cash flow as a source of income.On the other hand it feels like having a starter investment that yields more cashflow would help seed future investments.Thoughts are always welcomed!

The sale price is $60k and the zestimate is $100k...comparables seem to be in the 80-90k range.

However, out-of-country seller (no debt) paid $300/month to a property manager, $100/month taxes, $205/year insurance, $350/month water, $120 month for electric/heat (laundry shed), $35/month trash (dumpster shared with 2 other MFHs), $105/month mowing, $20/month pest spraying, $50/month for cleaning of laundry room, in addition to any maintenance required.

You have no way of knowing that a BP person will send you something that will hold water, legally.

When you look at a property you will be seeking a discount from the retail value of the home in order to bring the home current in the market place and thus makes it capable for the home to capture a higher percent of the retail value in the normal marketing time.I like this analogy, where retail value is a glass of water.

New tile on the floor doesn't mean squat".Mechanicals,roofs,plumbing,electrical etc. that is where the real cost is at.Is the property sub-metered for water??

I have been putting bandit signs up and trying to do subject to deals so that i can get control of houses cheaply but the problem is 1) subject to is a short term startegy becuase they may call loan due at any time 2) lots of subject to deal the house is under water I already wasted $1k in bandit signs and feeling discourage...I know there are a lot of creative financing deals out there..