These are essentially tethering kits that are installed behind large items of furniture to allow them to be "tied" to the wall.See this:http://www.nbcnews.com/id/48573739/ns/health-child...These kind of accidents are horribly common.  

Which came in at $240,000.00So The bank bank is giving us $169,000.00+$75,000+$11,000+fHA insurance= loan amount of $257,538.00We are putting our own money of $25,625.00 Rent we are asking for is $1200+$1200+1270=$3,670.00yearly Expenses                                                        Revenue          Taxes $3,328                                                          Rental Inc. $44,040.00Ins. $2939                                                               Vacancy (15.5%) $6878Maintenance $1200                                            Net Income  $37,212.00Utilities $5400Total Expense  $12,867.00NOI $24,345.00          Cash flow $5,067.56              Cap Rate 8.6%COC 19.77%           The thing of uncertainty is 1.

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http://www.dornc.com/taxes/property/electroniclisting.html dornc is the dept of revenue, ie the irs at the state level.  

I utilize ABNB and VRBO with some of my units and the increase in revenue is very real.  

This way I'd essentially have no money down and extra cash on hand to fix up the basement (plumbing issue, 8k-10k, 4 bidders so far).

I had one flip deal fall through (repairs were too much), but it mainly fell through because the homeowner received a lot of letters and he called multiple people and bid the asking price up essentially.

It costs $0.25 per transaction, so essentially $0.50 for each payment.  

I would define a "good deal" as anything where Total Revenue - Total Cost = A Profit and the ROI is above market rate for the average stock market returns. 

Don't just use one bank, always have a backup because their policies can change, there probably is no commitment to refinance a balloon loan.While the purpose of the loan and project must be viable, be conservative with estimated revenues, vacancy issues, maintenance, by conservative I mean don't overstate the upside to you, it's almost like showing the worst case.