If your goal is stacking doors, you could hold as a near-breakeven with solid equity, but only if you’re comfortable leaving money in and banking on stable rents.

Target roles that stack skills, contacts, and a steady paycheck: maintenance tech for a property manager, assistant project manager or junior estimator with a GC, acquisitions assistant for a small investor-friendly brokerage, or apprentice in a licensed trade like electrical/HVAC.

An application fee covers our overhead, and it deters some people which is fine.3.

@Arthur Luay At age 40, if your goal is to save for a down payment on your first long-term rental, the best option depends on your timeline and risk tolerance—but here's how each choice stacks up: A savings account offers safety and liquidity but earns minimal interest.

Run a simple buy box and stack rank markets by: rent‑to‑price, vacancy, property taxes, and PM strength.

Too many risk factors stacked on that deal for most lending options.

For cold marketing, we need to take a broader approach since we're stacking the funnel of quality leads. 

The market’s not falling apart, but it’s definitely finding a new rhythm after several years of wild appreciation.I’ll break down what’s happening right now with condo prices, how the 2025 summer rental season performed, and how values stack up compared with last year.

For Memphis crime research, stack sources then ground-truth: use the city’s crime map, Layer in public tools like SpotCrime and NeighborhoodScout, then validate with two local property managers on tenant profile, turnover, and “no-go” blocks.

Purchased off the MLS for $125,500.  3 units stacked on top of each other with identical floor plans: 3 bed / 1 bath 1300 sq ft each.