A separate meter is a better way to go but this way has been working for me and it's $300 vs thousands to achieve the same result and the tenants have been good with it.

Any thoughts on HOW TO - be able to EASILY get these escrow impound funds (which are thousands of $$) disbursed to us ???

And a lot of start-up companies are migrating to this city as well, because of the efficient costs of living, the OSU campus that has thousands of students graduating and looking for jobs locally, and the availability of land.

It's literally what people have wanted from us the last year or so... thanks for the engagement though. 

This is something that I have personally given a lot of thought to as my goal is similar, a handful of paid off properties, each free cash flowing a few thousand per month.

You have to send thousands to fish out the exceptions.

You have both the high vacancy and rough area working against you placing qualified tenants.There are literally dozens of reasons one unit rents and another does not even if the unit not renting is the better looking unit.  

Or else you will pay literally, all costs!

From the floor joist being cut from the sill plates and the entire house needing brought to level, the foundation requiring correction, to the no slope rubber roof leaking and needing replaced when I say I renovated every square inch of this property I mean that literally.

@Bryan Melendez you're just one of thousands of investors that:1) Were chasing Class A rentals from 2012-2020, before their values exceeded their pre Great Recession highs and they wouldbnt casflow at purchase anymore.2) That started chasing Class B rentals in 2020-2022 because of #1 above.3) Started chasing Class C rentals in 2022 when Class B rental prices AND higher mortgage rates also got too high to cashflow at purchase.4) Are now chasing Section 8 tenants as the cure-all for Class C tenant performance issues, so their Class C properties ACTUALLY cashflow.