THEN find a really good deal (its important to find a real deal) and then you've laid the framework to bring it to them.Excitedly go to them and be like "Oh my gosh look at this awesome deal!

If our market had high turn over, or our strategy produced irregular income we would lean toward 12 months mortgage plus a major repair.I hope this is a useful framework for something to consider.

I know that there are less expensive alternatives but at the time the location, schedule and time-frame worked out conveniently for me and it was also run by a Keller Williams brokerage that I wanted to join.Personally, my instructor was a bit newer I think and didn't have all the information down pat.

The 2% rule I have thrown out the door, however I have been reverse engineering what I will be comfortable as a return on my first property and am using that as a frame work to narrow my search for properties.

The words you speak, and your mindset set the framework and filters for how you approach conflict.  

HAVE AN EXIT PLAN FOR RISING INTEREST RATES.When you have done all of these things, you will have a framework of fundamentals that will set you up to make smart and successful investments.Good luck!

That size of a group needs a solid framework to make sure everyone is protected and everything is done fairly, properly and legally.

More about me - I started a year ago in REI and I read a lot of books and papers on remote RE investing, demographics movement across US, asset protection + listened to every single podcasts + analyzed 100s of properties and then created a system or framework for investing after many iterations.

So it is still a series of straight exchanges plus the reverse exchange framework. 

While the framework of what Brandon talks about are general plans that DO work, the DO NOT work in ALL markets.