First thing is that governments are not household incomes as they like to portray that relationship, totally a different world.

Sounds like a lot, but compare it to the total number of rentals out there.There are 115 million households in the US.

Wells have been taged by State enviromental depts to shut down or do crazy daily testing and alot more expense for chlorinators etc.  

The $140k Homes run about $1700 a year in taxes, so that brings the total payment to $958/mo without insurance which kicks them off.Of course, you could just do a 2 income household and kick it over, and the people could do it that way, but people seem not to like it too much.Now, having said that , in these areas where a foreclosure comes up for $120k or so, they go like hotcakes.

I'd like to get some input on how much I could/should be spending on an investment property, given the fact that my wife and I will be looking for a home of our own in the next 1-3 years.We live in New York City, but I've been interested in purchasing a multi family investment property for a while now, and am getting the ball rolling on that.Our household income is around $180k/year.  

With almost 46% of households as rentals, the Charleston market is better than it appears on paper.  

Census Bureau: American Community Survey (ACS)The ACS was launched in 2005 and is administered every year by the Census Bureau to roughly three and a half million households in the USA.

A startling number of American households are currently not paying their mortgages.

A new report shows about 9 million households in the U.S. are millionaires.

That is the Bromine that we use in the Tub which works much better than Chlorine at the higher temperatures.