Otherwise, you need to get commercial loans, basically a non-residential loan which comes in many different names, such as a "portfolio loan." 

Hey we received off market financials on a 64 bedroom student housing building.
We have been heads down looking at apartments so this is a little outside our zone.
But we were curious if we’re underwriting this how ...

What I am learning is that Portfolio/Private lenders don't have to make the same disclosures that lenders who resell to Fannie/Freddie must  make.

We are attempting to acquire the property we rent, a duplex and begin a portfolio in Maine. 

With your portfolio growth goals keeping a positive cash flowing property is key, while still being able to access the equity.

I'd like to add 7-12 units to my portfolio in the next 5-12 months and I'd like to continue to self manage.

My goal is to use my shoe business as a tool to build a substantial real estate portfolio and while I'm waiting for those two years of tax returns, I've been reading real estate and business books, listening to dozens of episodes of the podcast, and (in an admittedly rudimentary way) analyzing as many deals as I can per day.

They might sell a portfolio of non-performing notes.An individual MAY be more inclined to sell at a discount.

I now have the REI train back on the tracks and I am committed to taking the REI plunge.My dilemma is, my original landlord sold off his entire portfolio of 30+ doors, maybe more.

I have been working on a 23 property portfolio mixed with SFH's and Multiunit houses, cash flows nicely with good COC ROI, for $2.3 million.