@Kenedy A Foryoung If you make less than $100k, you can write off up to $25k of net rental losses (rental expenses in excess of rental income) per year.If your income falls between $100k-150k, your allowable rental loss phases out.If you make over $150k, you cannot deduct any net rental losses against your W-2 income unless you're a real estate professional (which you likely won't qualify for with a full-time job).

There are a lot of mixed use properties which could be great owner-occupied and small commercial like auto-body, landscaping etc.

@Paul Sandhu  Did you tell the lady you charge that much because you have to deal with hookers, snakes, and dead bodies? 

Science - real science - depends on theories and experiments that can corroborate and confirm a large body of evidence to create "facts", generally replicable.

Check out my personal favorite, Set For Life by @Scott Trench , or The Total Money Makeover by Dave Ramsey. 3.

Check out my personal favorite, Set For Life by @Scott Trench , or The Total Money Makeover by Dave Ramsey. 3.

Facebook is also a great tool for vetting prospects and identifying any red flags.If your looking to ensure you have a constant stream of bodies to fill any vacancies sticking around the Drake area can have some positives. 

From your experience if you even make over "blank amount of $" then should we even bother trying to get grants?

The neighborhood is a multi-ethnic neighborhood, so there isn't a typical look, other than the fact that they don't look like little skinny white dudes with tattoos running all over their bodies and weigh 110 lbs and the fact that they have witnessed the drug deals occurring right on the street in front of their houses. 

@Lee Arnold  I get it that sometimes people need a good kick in the butt to get them started, but personally I am more the type that decides I want something and don't stop until the pile of bodies jams the wheels, then I'll get out and walk the rest of the way.