Buy without any preconceived expectations and operate your business as it evolves.

We expereinced an anomaly of “temporary” demand from the flood of August 2016 that delayed the expected declines and softening of the rental market.  

@Kusum Chanrai One way to speculate on heavy upside is turning to areas which are soon to be better served by public transportation, for example Chinatown which will soon see the extension of the Muni Metro T Third line through the financial district.

Best to go into the deal with the expectation of putting up 25% down; 'Creative' financing is possible, especially on a turn around type acquisition, where the buyer may be adding value to the property through better management, renovation, tenant mix, etc.One thing to watch out for is what I call 'the great lie' of apartment sales. 

To me, an appraisal seems a fair way to bridge the price expectation gap between the buyer and the seller.

I use Ryan Antonucci and S&T bank for a bulk of my financing.

I’m thinking of purchasing rentals in Scranton, PA, but have had a hard time getting an owner on the horn to talk about services, pricing, and my expectations.

Here are the numbers on a BRRR duplex I am just finishing:Purchase: $85,000Rehab and holding costs: $25,000Rent: $1820 I am refinancing on a 30-year fixed and expect the appraisal to come in around $150,000, so my monthly payment will be around $750.

., there was a technical error, and the section of the tax code describing 15-year property (Section 168(e)(3)(E)) was in fact not amended to include qualified improvement property.So for now, strictly-speaking, in 2018, qualified improvement property is regular old 39-year property that is not eligible for bonus depreciation.We do expect that a technical correction to the law will be made, but for now the IRS has actually stated that it cannot guarantee that absent legislative correction it will accept the legislatively intended change in recovery period and bonus eligibility.Anyway, this is neither here nor there since you have stated you are a landlord of residential rental property rather than non-residential real estate.And this does not affect the application of 100% bonus depreciation to both qualifying new and used property place in service after 9/27/17 and before 1/1/23 that @Yonah Weiss pointed out.

A hard money lender or private lender may have different down payment options but don't expect anything much lower than 20%.