My understanding is that market value IS pretty much a range prospective tenants will pay .

I know other guys who spent their youth focused on getting a practical STEM degree in a field with quality employment prospects, orchestrating their career, aiming themselves for financial glory.

Really it’s prospective.

2-4 unit properties in areas with good potential for growth and attractive to prospective tenants

Typically a higher number to deter them from staying past the 30 days.

If the property doesn't match that, then you move to the next prospect.

I don't respond to prospects that don't follow simple instructions.   

I think the prospects of building smaller units 2-4 in prime locations are not feasible but I think there are pockets in the outer suburbs where land values are cheaper where it may work. 

Usually people tell me they don't have any evictions and then I find multiple filings; finally one prospective tenant told me that she didn't think an eviction filing "counted" if the eviction was eventually "dismissed."

Has there been anything that's deterred you from that avenue first?