I updated the electrical, painted everything, and “cleaned the property up nicely” exterior and interior.

Also, focus on 2 years of job/income stability.Class D Properties:Cashflow vs Appreciation: Typically, all cashflow with little, maybe even negative, relative rent & value appreciationVacancy Est: 20%+ should be used to cover nonpayment, evictions & damages.Tenant Pool: majority will have FICO scores under 560 (almost 30% probability of default), little to no good tradelines, lots of collections & chargeoffs, recent evictions.

In neighborhoods that won't attract high credit score tenants, I've found that a stable job history with a MINIMUM of 1 year at current or previous job to be the best indicator of a great tenant. 

Ideally, it would be nice to have both types of Investments.  

There are landlords who are proud to own properties while offering their communities a nice and safe place to live (and enjoying the benefits of having someone else pay for your appreciating asset).

Hey Kolby, Nice to meet you!

First of all, great job.

For a growth market to be growing, you need a lot of job and population migration. 

Most people focus on cash flow, and while that's nice, it doesn't build wealth.

We have one property managers whose job is to be our eviction Laison across the whole portfolio.