That's a very good point taking the potential further value decrease into consideration (like when running the ARV for pricing it out to the end-buyer), so it makes sense that, like you said, it would have to be a great deal.

Hire an experienced real estate agent (20+ years in the biz) to run a market analysis for you.

It can run long, it can run expensive, it can be done poorly, it can not be done at all, you can be ripped off. 

Nice new homes are going to run more to keep in great shape..

Im more a hands on learning definitely and as far as living in a unit i couldn't yet because its out of the kids school district  plus the limited space. but thats the goal, to buy a small air or inn to manage and run for work while still renting in our district and then looking to buy since we're renters again!

I am pretty sold on DataFlik's stacked lists, but I wanted to run this question by all of the smart investors here at BP. 

At the very least you get practice running numbers and if you share your thoughts with the realtor they will have a better idea of what you are looking for in the future.

Currently, I own 26 doors and run a property management company that oversees 350+ units.

I did one last year to swap from an “older property” built in the late 1990’s to a new build  I didn’t run out of reasons, but you get the point.

If your realtor is listing it for free and not helping, that's not much help since leaving you to screen tenants and run through leads is like asking you to perform knee surgery, you don't know what you are doing.All rental listings should get bombarded on Zillow Rental Manager and HotPads, etc in the first week so if you have limited activity, your price is either too high or the photos are bad and the copy about the place is bad.Use something like RentSpree from screening.