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Investor Playbook 2025: Cash-Flow First, Smart Leverage, Clean Exits

Investor Playbook 2025: Cash-Flow First, Smart Leverage, Clean Exits: Strategy pillars Buy for cash flow, not hope. Underwrite with conservative rents, rising insurance/taxes, and realistic vacancy. BRRRR—only when numbers warrant. Buy, Rehab, Rent, Refi, Repeat can recycle capital, but budget rehab

Interest Rates Are Easing: What That Means for Buyers, Sellers, and Investors

Interest Rate Update — What It Means for Buyers and Sellers: Quick Take: Mortgage rates have fallen into the mid-6s for a 30-year fixed—opening up buying power, refi opportunities, and potential demand for listings that stalled earlier this year. What’s happening now The 30-year fixed averaged ~6.35

From Seller’s Market to Smarter Moves: What's Changing in the Triangle

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