In stocks, those things can help you, but they can't add value to the investment itself.That is true, but you can't reinvest income from your real estate and have more of it without altering your risk position like you can stocks/ETFs.

Prospective homebuyers rely on the inspection results of certified real estate home inspectors to gauge whether they will proceed with the transaction, require additional rehabilitation work from the seller, or turn down the deal.

In addition, having someone in the property is going to reduce the vandalism or weather damage to the property.FM is going to outsource the the property management.

I'm in WV, but you should be able to go to magistrate and only be out $50 to $100 to try and get back you deposit plus court costs, maybe some additional damages, it wouldn't hurt to ask.

Many of your replys were from agents so I would take that into consideration when reading their responses.In my experience, I have had agents scew up and cost me money on investments in the past, no one is perfect of course.My advice is this: If you are doing the work and research, are experienced enough to handle contract negotiations, etc. you can absolutely use the negotiating technique with the seller that they do not have to pay the additional 3% to a buyer's agent and as such, can reduce their price by 3%, or by 1% + 2% cash back to cover some of your closing costs.

BOA wants the additional 2500 to come outside of Closing.

Having a proper business plan, multiple exit strategies, and the ability to properly analize the investments are also key factors in addition to purchasing at a large discount in any economy, bad, or good.

In addition, they talk about writing in a provision which gives possible future owners the responsibility of paying for repairs below $500 while they are renting and considering exercising the option.

Broaden our options to include buy and hold, lease-purchase, in addition to new const. and rehab.3.

In addition to needint the information for tax purposes, I need to provide the statements to the bank to obtain commercial loans and the banks require annual financial statements for the commercial loans that I have.In other words, I agree with you.