If you're painting a rental buy the cheap stuff and make sure it's semi-gloss.

While there are many advantages like low property taxes, landlord friendly, strong appreciation it's not going to be as cheap as the Midwest and have the cash flow with 25% down.

Rip-Off Report has plenty of people that have finally awakened to the fact that CI is nothing but a very cheap and ineffective gathering spot for REI's wishing against hope that somehow they will connect with a successful transaction.5.

Is there a managing company on green renewable energy on cheap/free land or water, selling electricity per kWh and selling carbon credits, leveraging preferential rate financing and tax reduction for green energy ? 

Plus is complicates a lot of issues, more documents needed for title, etc.Now they can do all those things, but most people are too cheap to do it correctly, and all these people telling you to do it yourself, probably don't know how to run the LLCs correctly to stay out of trouble.It's not all that complicated, but it does take some work and a good attorney will guide you thru all this. 

If you go super cheap and buy one of those recently flipped 40K duplexes,well that headache is on you.

Thanks for reply @Gino Barbaro  Cheap capital and debt, Introduction of new and awesome tech and an abnormally exceptional market has definitely obscured basic management fundamentals. 

If I have to boot someone I'll have it re-rented for more money in a week and the person getting booted will probably be living under the bridge as they won't find anything as cheap as me. 

It's not easy or cheap.

So we took the plunge on some cheap Detroit houses and it's been really good to us.