I originally worked with Jeff Chisum (tenpercentdown.com) but his team has now moved to Northpointe and they have lots of products too.

Because of this, many investors see this strategy as a win in 2 ways:  first, they are able to invest 100% of their gains into another investment vehicle without paying tax and therefore gain the benefit of 100% of their capital's exposure to the new investment; and second, they are essentially creating tax arbitrage between their tax bracket rate and the flat recapture rate. 

This will essentially not be possible with new/multiple offer properties, so youll need to focus on properties that have been on the market awhile.Also note in Baltimore, your escrowed funds are always going to be high due to the high taxes...no way around that.Also keep in mind conventional loans limit closing help to 3%, VA to 4% and FHA to 6%.

During your due diligence period you should be able to request that the seller provide a trailing 12 month breakdown of the expensesAlso, 30yr fixed is a great product as many mentioned... my thought is, take the lower payment, then if you want to pay it off faster you have the option.

Google has some good products out for hard wired cameras!

This allowed us to get into the home for essentially no money down at a 3.75% interest rate.

(photography, video production, meetings, etc) This is for companies to rent your place so you can usually charge more and they don't typically spend the night, just book for like 6 or 8 hours type of thing.The other thing you could do would be direct bookings which would require a website and some type of marketing to drive folks to your website. ( Social media, SEO ads, etc.)

They most likely will not have near as much sales production as experienced agents. 

BUT, the market kept moving up, and we had the best product on the market in the area, so we shot for the moon and Listed for $2,279,000.

BUT, the market kept moving up, and we had the best product on the market in the area, so we shot for the moon and Listed for $2,279,000.