You may also want to buy a CD at your local bank and borrow against it on a twelve-month note, payable monthly.

I have been educating myself "obsessively", I have attended REI meetings in my area, I have  business cards of the real players in my area, I have a team that includes a Real Estate Agent, a manager, and an IT person. 

I would say C-/D neighborhood.I need everyone's input on a deal that I'm in the process of making.

Vacancy is typically related to community economics, the property class-{a,b,c,d} and how well you market & manage the existing tenants.

Most homes can be broken down into class A, B, C, D areas for the quality of the neighbor hood.

Many seasoned players get burned in this market

It's blatantly obvious they aren't real players.3) rental game is long term money, usually using financing from banks.  

You can go farther out to a C/D area, but then you're dealing with a different tenant.  

*Remember his ask is 525k*.Financing options : 10% down 10-20 year CD option (which I find of HUGE benefit). 

Now with the internet and self serve website like zillow and etc, I'm trying to see how realtors will continue to survive in a world thats changing toward self serve to sell your house as well with so many entrepreneurial investors helping homeowners sell and buy.I'm not here to debate about realtors but, I think the realtors may soon become like the old CD getting replaced by ipods and itunes.