Purchase price: $532,500 Cash invested: $106,500 I just bought a duplex on 3rd Ave on the Columbus side of Grandview and am planning on living in one side and renting out the other.  

There is a gutted duplex that is just sitting in my neighborhood on Nunan St downtown right now.

It may seem trivial for $3-4K/yr, but just consider it as a necessary action to be able to sell one day, otherwise you're likely to be in a serious bind later. 

Followed Energy credit.  

If you get cat urine in the house, it can cost you 10x the pet fee to mitigate the odor.

Looking great! 

I am a realtor in the St.

Good luck chasing them down to try to collect as it's just not worth it:(

23 days on the market doesn't seem like that long, especially since the holidays just passed.

Automatically, you need to generate more than 7.5% return on that money just to break even, because that is your cost of capital.