You never know why a house hasn't been scooped up by someone else, however I would NEVER pass on looking at a house that fit my criteria, just because it was on the market so long.

@Nick PisanoCongrats on looking for your first deal!

I appreciate the insight and information and will post again very soon to layout some situation specific things on my mind that maybe you’ll both have the chance to comment on. Look

@Joanne Hanson Congrats on looking to invest in your first rental property!

Should I focus on looking for house that is close to transportation or it's not that important?

Will definitely keep on looking for more deals.

Also, if it doesn't appraise for what you think it would maybe you wait on getting the Heloc.I would also caution you on looking to leverage up right now. 

Reading all I can get my hands on. Looking

@Joan Pla there are so many more advantages to doing a house hack than investing in a small multi out of state that it really does not make sense to burn time on looking out of state. 

You're the business that keeps accepting overqualified applicants for key positions and keeps losing them to headhunters because they have so many options other than working for your stingy self.So I guess my slumlord bonafides are now fully on disply with this post, but I'll continue treating my tenants like human resources to be fully exploited to the best of my abilities (just like a corporation), and you can keep on looking for exemplars of the finest past conduct to fill your vacancies (people whose next step is buying a house when they get sick of renting, with their good credit and excellent record), and we'll both do well in our market segments, you in your clean Canadian suburbs, me in my Rust Belt ghetto cesspits.Frankly, if I had a tenant applicant show up with the kind of clean record you're looking for where I own low-income rental properties in the 'Burgh, I'd immediately suspect identity theft.