I understand pay is regional...I pay 2 of these guys weekly - one gets 1300/week and the other gets 1200/week.

Ah, and this part directed at you: local to me there's a regional bank doing 75% CLTV HELOCs with no appraisal and no income or asset verification.

So I guess my point is its highly regional

While our homes are larger and somewhat unique, and your expectations should be lower with more of a cookie-cutter 4 or 5 bedroom, our gross rents average 4-5x the mortgage payment or so. 

If an AC unit is 20-35 years old, it’s past it’s useful life, very inefficient, and driving up the utility cost due to it’s EER/SEER, those terms mean more or less, depending on your region and weather.

No one know what the market will do and it varies regionally. 

Unless you are very comfortable with the major economic drivers and local/regional political climate (tax law, tenant rights...) of the market you're considering putting money into, it's always best to start by finding someone, as they say, with "boots on the ground" who really understands where things are and why.

That being said, I’m changing regions and opening a branch in Orlando, FL where I’ll be essentially building a new book while expanding the company.

Depending on the bank (local, regional, national) they may or may not have an existing agreement with a brokerage to list their REOs.

title=2019&region=021