She got the same amount of money if not more than if she had a rental and had none of the hassles of dealing with tenants.

If the tenant misses a payment the full amount becomes due. 

My spreadsheet also includes FMV of every property so I can monitor appreciation, year over year comparison of tax & insurance increases, current rent & last increase & last amount, etc.

You may be looking only for "low-hanging fruit" type deals, which are far & few between these days.Read copy & paste info below:--------------------------------------------------------------------------------The Real Estate Crash of 2008-2010 caused real estate prices to crash across the country - but didn't affect rent amounts.

You put a 3.5% down payment on a house that goes up 7% in 12 months you just made a 200% return that didn't take any large amount of skill or time.

Quote from @Carl Rowles: When you insure a SFH rental property, do you try to adjust and of the coverage amounts?

I had a “lender” tell me he’d give me a personal loan with a fixed 4% rate on a 30 year term at whatever amount I wanted because he would like to “build a relationship” with me. 

Duplex was not appraised for the amount that the realtor presented. 3 different appraisal short (needed $50k for HELOC) so now I am unable to cash out refi.

Depending on your goals and how many properties you plan to acquire it could be a decent amount of work.

You can delay the sales of the properties for your convenience.If you put all the properties on the market now and one property gets under contract before the others, you can sing into the contract that you can potentially delay the closing date by a certain amount of days.Best of luck!