I own - sorry, control - over 100 units of Turnkey out of state rentals, with huge rent rolls steady every month - and I started exactly 12 months ago - so I may be able to add some value to this thread. First and foremost @John Powell, in my humble opinion, providing the givens that you are in decent working class neighborhoods, have solid PM, and aren't going for appreciation play - the most important factor to making the cash flow net numbers work are your Purchase Price to Rent ratios. If you pay $100,000 for a property and get $1,000 rent, hitting the 1% rule, it doesn't matter what the turnkey provider says or how he slices and dices the cash flow spreadsheet - you're going to be very thin on net cash flow, recently rehabbed or not. I am simply not comfortable with that thin of margin, especially out of state. If I'm going to take on an out of state purchase - which all of mine are - I want $1500-$2000 rent for a $100,000 purchase. If I don't find it - I'll simply wait for the market to correct, or I'll keep searching until I find it. Sitting in cash is not all that bad with the coming Demographic Cliff and over-stimulated economy. For example, @Jerome Daughtrey, we have 10 all brick, wood floor doubles available, rented and turnkey for $55,000, renting for $1,050/mo. In this scenario, you're basically at the 2% rule, with a solid property that will certainly not see much in repairs or CapX anytime soon - and if you do, no problem, your cash flow margin is plenty high enough to offset any potential problems down the road. And by the way, I'm not knocking anyone for selling a property for $100k for $1,000 rent - theirs may be in a better neighborhood, with a much nicer house - I don't really care about that, I care about my ROI, and protecting my cash flow for the coming economic storm. I could go on and on, but hopefully that helps!