Your quick analysis assumes that rent and expenses remains the same, I have been lucky enough to avoid vacancies and increase rent each year so far, so if I can keep the trend of increasing rent going then the analysis would look slightly better (not much better).

I.e. with that much access, say to bank accounts to track payments or compile financial trends, how do you ensure you don't lose everything in your account?

But this clause is quite strong and all these tricks to get around it, at best, hide what you're doing.

I am interested in the buy and hold approach and am looking at single family/condo/multi-family places depending on costs.My goal is to gain a better understanding of how to price a home and determine if the ROI is worth it, understand where to find market trends and how to use them better when trying to figure out where to purchase a investment property and eventually learn best practices and tips on how to be a successful landlord and how to manage a property on my own.This is a 2nd career for me so I realize that may be a large goal.

Although if you waited too long to refi, the appraisals would be awfully tight.The trick now is getting all-in (purchase plus rehab plus the hard money lender costs) at 70% LTV.

While there are a lot of tricks to mask the odor or minimize it, the chemicals within the paint are actually off-gassing and will continue to do so for some time.

The trick is to build a relationship from good referrals and have someone with integrity and a good reputation.

While I have heard about this as a scam it is also a trick I have read about to see what kind of rental interest the ad generates.

Of course, there were a couple of tricks to get into contract in the first place.At this point, good deals are hard to come by.

Other than having a solid RE team does any one have any tips or tricks regarding communication and organization to improve the overall situational awareness of projects that are directed from afar?