now you can relax and take a vacation or invest in other cities. a good PM will make you very successful and a poor one will cost you thousands.

He's not given you any address, so he's made things difficult.Be sure to do something relaxing so you can drain some of the stress!

Some syndicators have a 3-5 year business plan where they want to get in the deal add value through whatever value add techniques they’ve planned on executing and then disposing of the deal once renovations and deferred maintenance and the value of the property has gone up.

If you hold the properties in your personal name, you can get Fannie Mae financing up to 10 financed properties unless you know more advanced techniques to go beyond 10.

I think you have to be careful about some techniques you hear about because they are basically fraud and deception.

Maybe there are some techniques there but every lender I’ve ever talked to wants me to have skin (read: money) in the game.

I am considering for my first property doing a house hacking technique, where I take advantage of a 3.5%-down fha loans where I will buy a 2-3 family home in the outskirts of Boston and live there for 1-2 years renting out the other 2 units.

I can understand the "if you don't have the $$ don't apply" technique but it suck for tenants that are looking and applying at multiple places.

Which is an awesome technique!

I've done Subject To and Lease Options for twenty years and I have some techniques that work in WA AZ TX and CA and I'm sure will work in VA.