Please don't believe the hype of these gurus and for the love of god do not pay for their courses.

Location and paying attention to Nathan's points above about the immediate area are more important.

Initiating the ConversationThe key to approaching a non-profit is to be respectful, patient, and aligned with their mission.

I knew that was not true because I had paid $780 a couple months before on a property in the same area and also my realtor told me that her clients had been paying that lower rate.

The best strategy is to buy properties that need fixed up with hard money/HELOC, fix them up, the refi out to pay back your HELOC/hard money.

I stumbled upon this thread and I'll admin I've only just read your initial post.

From our experience with clients, you’d typically expect to pay around $1,000–$1,500 for a single-property return, depending on your situation.If that $6K includes monthly bookkeeping and accounting, it could be reasonable; it could also be low, or high... it all really depends on the number of transactions, bank/credit card accounts, and the complexity of your finances.

We can still choose how much to pay someone to operate it if necessary.

The only thing in that county is that I pay a higher property tax rate as an investor vs. a homeowner. 

buy house  find renter rent house maintain house pray they pay rent and dont destroy it.