My first duplex Brrr gave me and my wife over $300k equity fairly fast while also allowing us to live at very low cost in an extremely desirable area. 

Hi friends,I have a vacant, well-maintained carpeted property that I am marketing.Since 70% of tenants are pet owners, I feel that I am missing out on a large market.However, I also don't want the hassle to completely replace my carpet after a tenant with pets moves out.

Regularly review your property's performance, and if the ROE dips, explore ways to extract and reinvest the equity to maintain your investment momentum. 

Therefore, if you have a variable interest rate mortgage, you must budget for fluctuations in the financial market.Maintenance & repairsBudgeting maintenance costs is vital to maintaining healthy cash flow.

Over the past few years, my wife and I have worked hard to improve our financial health—we’ve raised our credit scores above 800, paid off all debt except for our mortgage and student loans, and saved a fair amount.

After reading this, I am thinking online for day to day stuff and maintaining our relationship with the current local bank where our our account (both business and personal are) for lending.

I hear you on out of state investing, I invest a fair amount in NC where you can still buy houses at 50-60k 2 miles from a Target...lol  

@Ryan Lee, errors like this are fairly common.

You could work out a "family trust" or another legal structure where you manage the property, get the cash flow, but maintain the rate.

As for a information to specific grades for neighborhoods, you may struggle to find that as it can be fairly subjective.