Talk about Cash on Cash return!  

You will likely face competition everywhere, the key is having realistic expectation for your returns. 

I like duplexes in Chattanooga quite a bit they have fairly solid returns.  

Of course, your return gets lowered, but that is the problem with simply looking for more cash flow. 

We’re moving forward with early termination of the lease and in an effort to expedite lengthy discussion with parents of our tenants we’ve agreed to return a portion of the security deposit.To anyone that has terminated a lease early, do you have an early lease termination template used for signature by both lessor and lease relieving both sides of future claims?

Not buying is really a pretty easy way to get a nice return without the tenants, toilets or trash.

We're happy keeping our current loans, all under 5%, for the full term at these low rates, especially with stock market returns doing so well for several years now, so it's made more sense investing there rather than paying down loans. 

If you try to get a HELOC from a mortgage broker the rate will be crap (if they can do it at all), if you try to get a purchase investment property loan from a credit union or big bank then it'll take 4 months just to be declined at the last minute because your CPA didn't dot an i on page 7 of your tax returns, etc etc, you get the idea.

From everything I know about US RE the returns should be much higher, but maybe certain markets has lower returns.

Hi all,A realtor/investor reached out looking for $12k to help fund a deal and promised a net return of $24k to be paid 60 days after the property has been rehabbed and listed for sale.