Congrats on the grand slam deal.

I have spent 70% of the last seven years living in Europe with my wife and we are now full time(for the most part) in Austin.Experience I have owned a Mobile Home Park (17 park owned MH's and 9 month to month RV spaces)in the Rio Grande Valley (Edinburg) for almost 3 years.

I don't understand how this fits into the grand scheme of things (and it sounds like a pretty important piece of the puzzle).I also don't understand your last couple of sentences.

I bought a short sale for $38k put $8 grand into it and sold it for $95k.

It sounds like your current listing agent is kinda meh though, so it seems you may have a low bar so to speak :-)It might save you a few grand, but honestly I think that your biggest savings is to get rid of it as quickly as possible and to stop paying the interest, insurance and taxes.

I think I can get two grand out of the deal if he's willing to buy it for 21k

One other theory that I have is that the more heavy things a tenant brings into the rental like refrigerator, washer, dryer, grand piano, the longer they stay because they know how hard it is to move all that heavy stuff again to another place.

Don't feel too bad. 9 grand on advertising is a drop in the bucket.....

:lol: Actually, I was doing a little math. 230 million....on the grand scheme of things that's really not that much money.

There is a pocket of duplexes on Euclid and Grand that I always thought would make a good opportunity to live in 1, and rent the other side.Also where in Indiana are your rentals?