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Nothing against renting to tenants on the lower end of the spectrum, everyone deserves a clean safe lace to live, but most investors have multiple units to spread the increased risk over more than one stream of cash flow.

I had similar goals when I started exploring various crowdfunding and alternative investment options a few years ago (though I also wanted to sprinkle in some more speculative angel/venture investments), and ultimately ended up making investments in more than a dozen different platforms across a fairly wide spectrum of asset classes.To the extent you want to make Real Estate a big piece of the Alternatives portion of your portfolio (and if you're looking for income, then that makes a ton of sense), @Ian Ippolito's site is a fantastic resource to help you with your due diligence.While some flavors of equity crowdfunding may not meet your income goals, there's a growing selection of offerings around business financing like revenue shares, receivables financing, and litigation financing as well that may be worth considering.

Both ends of that spectrum are outliers.  

Growing up I didn't have much, and I consider my family definitely on the lower side of the income spectrum.  

I'm looking to begin from the wholesaleing end of the spectrum.

You cannot legally get permits for a house you are not occupying as a primary residence.Per sqft pricing is inaccurate and useless for broad spectrum renovations on houses of that age.

I should make sure the point is clear that they were willing to include the rents on the property I was buying, which means- no seasoning period.This was on a conventional loan that would be sold to one of the agencies, so it's even in the conservative end of the spectrum.

The very southwest corner of EC (Roxana) has some nice houses.On the other end of the spectrum, I drove the southeast quarter of EC the other day and I wouldn't invest there personally (yet).

@Jose Duque, it's funny, I'm actually on the other side of the spectrum currently.