CONVENTIONAL:A conventional loan allows you to put as low as 5% down and go up as high as you want, some banks may allow you to come even lower.

Lowes often puts their flooring on sale, so we saved that way + using a Lowes credit card to save an additional 5%.End results of how the flooring turned out in our unit can be seen in my profile.Best of luck with your reno!

Your vacancy and CapEx look a little low to me.

Just figured I would share my thoughts from the other post here as well, had a bad run-in with John himself and I am not happy about how he treated me as a customer.......I had to search high and low to talk to someone after I purchased the product.

@Lane Cooper - In terms of relatively low risk vs. high reward, I have yet to find a single better investment than doing a house hack. 

Quick closings, good customer service, low fees, interest only payments and desktop appraisals in many cases.

If market research indicates a particular area is losing jobs faster than the national average, has a low population rate to begin with, and has a higher proportion of owners to renters, along with other indicators of potential issues, then I may be able to reasonably assume that it will be more difficult to find good tenants, more difficult to charge market rents, etc.

.- rent is very low. 

I am familiar with the Brrrr strategy however most often times people talk of buying with low or traditional down payment as opposed to buying the property and doing all the rehab with cash.Anyone have some examples of why you would or wouldn't want to do this?

And I'm opposed to the natural gas space heat that some suggest- it can cause long-term, low-level carbon monoxide exposure.