Those qualities can be the difference between closing a deal and walking away empty-handed.What about you?

It was mostly due to my day job income and low cost of living over a long period of time; however, real estate accounts for about 50% of our income through a small portfolio of short, mid, and long term rentals. 

@Zach Howard some copy & paste advice below:)-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Recommend you first figure out the property Class you want to invest in, THEN figure out the corresponding location to invest in.Property Class will typically dictate the Class of tenant you get, which greatly IMPACTS rental income stability and property maintenance/damage by tenants.If you apply Class A assumptions to a Class B or C purchase, your expectations won’t be met and it may be a financial disaster.If you buy/renovate a property in Class D area to Class A standards, what quality of tenant will you get?

In this type of situation, they want low interest rate with low down payment also.

Some will try to low ball you and keep every possible dollar for themselves.

Are their listings detailed with good-quality photos?

Shoot me a DM if you want some help with finding a condo or house with a low rate that's on market.

I think there's a pretty low bar for competency in the management business because it's not glamorous and can be a grind.

As you can tell marine the appraisal came back 40k low and I was so dumbfounded.  

note if we sell the primary residence, it is very likely we will not need mortgages to buy smaller rentals as we would use that mostly.Though I take your point on keeping it. our house was a new construction (3 years old) though so possibly low maintenance risk to keep for a rental.