There is a Meijer and strip mall with good restaurants and businesses nearby including a Whole Foods that helps garner renters, owners to the area.

@Luke Badalaty, only if the existing sprinkler heads are the flexible ones ( like below ). most sprinkler heads are hard piped, which means you would have to shut down the system, drain it, open up the ceiling to extend the pipe and then close it all up.

Not a lot of variety when it comes to restaurants, retail, coffee shops, etc. --- I used to live in Royal Oak (Metro Detroit), it is night and day 2.)

Maybe the best restaurant in the city?

Heck in one case (Lockhart) the state actually shut the high school down and buses kids up to 30 miles to a high school it was so sub par.

Son lives at the property as well, likely 40's and works at a restaurant.

OK got that out of the way.My wife and I had my "CASH 4 HOUSES" tshirts on at a restaurant Sunday and this guy stopped my wife and ask if she could buy several houses at one time.

You see, I currently wash dishes for a local restaurant chain during the day, bring in barely 1k per month in income (after taxes), a little over half of which goes toward living expenses, and use a bicycle and the local transit system to commute around town since I don't own a car.

I don't buy properties that require an HOA and the utilities are always covered by the tenant.So if I have a market that has 3B/@B homes for $100K the 1% figure I like to apply only tells me that the rent needs to be around $1000/month.When I find properties that fit that criterium, all the other important aspects start coming into play, but all the properties that don't meet the 1% are out.These other criteria include things like the quality of the schools, the distance to restaurants and shopping, the crime rate in the area, the stability of tenants, meaning how long are typical lease agreement.

thank you. im going to research what a 203K is.. meanwhile i have been thinking of properties with rental units above a store front/restaurants.