IMO killeen is a solid investment. just have to watch which areas you are getting into. there are some pretty rough areas near fort hood but killeen is great because it is close enough to austin and people commute from there to austin as well. with fort cavazos near by and the new samsung plant coming online in taylor, it is a solid choice with steady demand for MF.

Because nothing bad happens to 99.99% of them and they feel safe.

I can give you a crash course on the good, the bad and the ugly of Binghamton.Binghamton is something of a unicorn market at the moment; it's a rust belt city with a history of low incomes and low property values.

You will get a bad reputation because they already have lawsuits.Hey Katherine, have had amazing experience with them, just finished my second padsplit and it’s really nice!

note none of my local STRs have this good a revenue ratio; if they did I would have good cash flow on them which my cash flow on the STRs the last few years has been modest.I am still shocked my underwriting shows the COC to be this bad, but I have decent confidence in the underwriting.  

One more reason why long-distance management is a bad idea.

I have a choice to ask the seller to pay for my buyer agent's commission or not include it in the offer letter (pay by myself), so I wanted to know before I submit the offer. 

You can do crazy stuff with trusts but hey are really bad at protecting assets. 

I always thought that in need to invest where I lived and for may years invested in bad areas that I thought I needed to.  

Readers are advised to seek professional advice.Thank you Sean, sorry I've bad at explaining the general use case I'm interested in.