@Tony Ma I agree, and from the statistics I've seen, about 28% of all houses are rented with only a 4% vacancy rate http://www.bestplaces.net/housing/city/texas/katy.

@Vy Mai, I wrote an article last year about Emotional Support Animals.

Originally posted by @Vy Mai:@Joe Splitrock Hi Joe, I wanted to ask you about your response.

A colleague of mine in MA is sending out a direct mailer to 600+ leads via list source and I'll let everyone know how that goes.If you have the time, but not the money, you can go on the assessors website and go street by street looking for absentee owners (where the mailing address and property address are different).

If your idea is sitting on a beach drinking lava flows (I don't like mai thai) then flipping is obviously the wrong path.

@John Ma I think you'll get more of a response if you re-phrase your question and be more specific.

Is the property in Peabody, MA?  I

Brian, lawyers are definitely not a protected class, and while my rentals are in NH and not MA, I don't rent to them either. 

To all the posters from outside of MA:  MA is one of the most tenant friendly states in the US.

I'm rehabbing a buy and hold in Malden MA.  I