I hope I am not stepping on any toes by posting these articles... but living in this market makes you want to climb a mountain and scream about it.

I'm not very confrontational and aggressive to be able to yell and scream at people.

Is it fair to scream "I told you so Mr.

If real estate is truly in your blood I would highly recommend obtaining a sales type position either as a Realtor or as a mortgage broker.  

She ended the call screaming "I'm calling the cops"!!

Get an 80% loan so you have money for the rehab, or even put in a low bid and see what happens, either you get a screaming deal, or you lose the bid. 

Every single comment on this thread is screaming TurnKey.  

And, if it is the screaming deal that you think it is, you can do a cash out refinance on it with a private lender / local bank almost immediately or with a Fannie Mae backed loan after 6 months.

We've sourced hundreds of deals from those 2 sources alone, in addition to approximately 9 other strategies we have honed over the years to fill our funnel with screaming good deals (where nobody else knows where to look....Happy Hunting!

Multifamilies / commercial have higher interest rates so one can't compare it to your buddy's screaming hot deal for his home.You could pay points to lessen the interest (1 point = 1% of the loan), but the break even I was hearing for my situation was a 5 - 7 year time horizon.