You can make money self managing in good areas though at 25 down after cosmetic updates to boost rents, I have a building I only visited twice.

Wife is from Baton Rouge but her parents are moving, we want to keep some sort of connection to the area but doesn't look like having a duplex rental that we can rent out for cash flow is possible.We were even thinking about a triplex and keeping one empty so we could use it when we come and visit but again the insurance is upsetting

It helps handle all the "back of the envelope" calculations a head of time for all listings within 50 miles of your city.

Apologize ahead of time if “Source of graph doesn’t show”. 

Doing it this way you will have to be putting alot of trust with Agents, GCs and anyone visiting the property for you.There is a lot of local and out of state investors who are currently buying the low inventory.

Most of that time is spent on my weekly visits to each location to make sure they don’t need trash picked up and to make sure the lawn or snow removal is being done correctly.

Of course, it should be cohesive and tell the story of the property and area that guests are visiting.

Since I get almost daily messages regarding small multi-family opportunities in Charlotte and find myself repeating much of the same information on the phone during intro calls, I figured I would go ahead and put my experience into writing for others who are doing research.

4) Is there any good way to "calculate" the new appraised value ahead of time to know what to fix/rehab?

I've honestly seen amazing changes over the years and someone whom flat out told you ahead of time, tells me they're serious and don't want to waste either of you guy's times.