I'll err on the side of caution here.

I raised one tenant’s rent to $1,180, invested $5,000 in renovations while living in the other unit, and found a roommate paying $750.

But about 1 year after we bought the property, they started cracking down on the homeless in downtown Jacksonville moving the crime to the neighborhoods just outside of Jacksonville.

When you have the confidence & experience branch out and do one yourself.

Most people will sell you on the upside—cheap properties, high cash flow, and a growing city—but they conveniently skip over the challenges.Tenant risk is real.

Speaking from hands on experience on both platforms as I've worked with both Carrot and Wordpress sites (more than 400 sites so far since 2017), what carrot brings into the table is their simple, all in one, fast website platform.

This is because I make good decisions on the front end by doing my due diligence.

Still, I think you'd find it difficult to find one that would be a good long-term investment unless you had another ~20-30 years to go, it's at least cash neutral, and you don't plan to hold it too long (to avoid too much investment loss and before you get to the point where it's unsellable because of too few years left); that's another way of saying that maybe it suits your cash needs in the near-term or is at least less of a pill to swallow than other options until you find something that's more of a sensible long-term play

@Jonathan LudizacaIt really depends on the market.

Thanks, Bernice One approach is to break it down by looking at similar vacant retail spaces nearby and comparing price per square foot while factoring in potential rental income once occupied.