As @Blair Poelman mentioned, you'd need some luck to make it work out.Personally, the town's population number + reliance on a few companies are enough for me to run away quickly.

That issue directly led to our current reliance on IRAs today, which doesn't really solve the issue at all, just causes us to expect less.

Also, they both advocate setting up your own website & cut your reliance on the 'hosting websites' since you don't know when they will change things on you!  

They may very well take actions in reliance on that (like putting a deposit on an apartment, or another house.  

Looking to join or start a Fix-n-Flip crew in my area focused on minimal reliance on third-party contractors; want to participate with crew members on the rehab work instead. 

The city's unemployment rate being below the national average is always a good sign, but less reliance is placed on unemployment than the previous three factors.

Even though they are not legally obligated to lend to you, there are legal reliance and estoppel arguments.

Reliance on team.

What if you say you want a 10% return, well you're going to get back a lot of dumpy places with high returns and miss out on a lot of great properties that only get back 9%and we are only talking about seller pro forma calculations, so you're going to miss out on a lot of potential deals because of the over reliance on a single metricinstead, how about you say "I wanted to see all 3/2 SFR between 50-105K selling price in these zip codes" and maybe address some locations you don't want to buy in. describe your investment criteria by the asset you want to purchase not by final ROI. 

Look for deals where the NOI can carry the debt with a healthy DSCR day by year 2 without a reliance on year 3 refi or exotic bridge debt.