Rents are $17,700  with tenants paying their own utilities and total costs are $12,030 including the mortgage payment.(10% management $1770, 5% vacancy factor $885, maintenance $885, lawn care  $900, 10 % Cap ex $1770, Payments $5820)This leaves $5670 dollars a year in cash flow for a ridiculous 56.7% cash on cash return! 

My lawn guy has a low credit score and he is the most trustworthy person I know who has paid back two personal loans we made to him over the years! 

As a matter of fact, i never even factored in snow removal and landscape (even thought its a small patch of lawn and some bushes. 

Howdy @Travis WhiteI did not see Property Management, utilities, lawn care, or other miscellaneous expenses.  

When you use an escalator clause how to you verify the list agent isn't artificially boosting the price with other "fake" offers?

Like an apartment, in small multis you will probably have to manage any common-area maintenance, like mowing the lawn. 

Yeah I am working with a Realtor and this duplex is in Oak Lawn (Perry Heights).

Think of all the things that could go wrong and see if the lease addresses them: unauthorized pets or tenants, early termination, security deposit, lease violations, late rent, eviction, lawn maintenance, parking, etc.5.

When he was two, we could not pass a for sale sign on a lawn without him campaigning to go "walk the property".At three we gave him a piggy-bank ... or, rather, a cow-bank called "Moolah the Money Savvy Cow" {NFI} which has four compartments: Save, Spend, Donate, & Invest and started teaching him about  these different ways he can use his money.  

why artificial high prices..   ????