I would rather let it sit empty with no wear and tear than take $1700 a month and pay probably $300/month for heat in the winter. 

I just closed on a duplex in Dayton for $189K $1100 a door and have an investor closing on a 4 unit for $325K in Indy with great rents that cash flow over $1000 a month.I have seen Indiana, & Ohio pick up some major heat over the last 3 years for investors while Boise falls somewhat short.

But you still have to provide (and maintain) a kitchen, a bathroom, HVAC (well maybe just heat), a water heater.

Then you can decide if you want to retain as a rental property (my plans) and/or sell it when the market heats up.  

Affordability is about 1:3So yeah on the surface it looks like a big difference, but there's a lot of things not controlled for in the stats- There were a crazy amount of houses built in the years just after the war, so housing stock was easy to come by everywhere;- Homes had nowhere near the kind of features they have now - 2 car garages, dishwashers, OTC microwaves, W/D hookups, high efficiency windows, central heat & air conditioning, etc - all those doodads and niceties drive up the cost of housing;- Fewer mortgages were 30 year, so homeowners had to pay (relatively) higher monthly payments;- Rentals were almost exclusively apartments, so there was more supply for buyers;ETCI think these things tend to be more stories that make for good press but aren't really that grounded in reality overall.

Don't quite understand what you mean.Wholesaling has nothing to do with where you grew up.Wholesaling (as well as any other business) is about lead generation.I didn't grow up in NYC, and if I were to wholesale there I would dominate that market with my ability to rank websites #1, dominate online presence, credibility, and competence strategies I can apply to my online image.I think this is why so many people are "afraid" of wholesaling.Break wholesaling down into its most basic elements.

I didn't know the difference between a heating system and water heater, I didnt know how to screen deals, I didnt know how to calculate cash on cash. we all start somewhere. 

You need to sit down with them and heat them out.then you wouldn't be so judgemental.

Things to consider: daily internal operations, external branding and operations, lending, in addition to inside out *legal protection and outside in** legal protection, privacy/anonymity/identity protection and security...Prevention measures at different levels, preventing the attack from being initiated vs preventing the attack (lawsuit) being successful vs reducing the damage of a successful attack.... there are many elements and I see people pick one and argue about it without looking at the whole

Have a salon with a water heater that was installed around three months ago, and the tenant has complained that it's having issues heating the water; I suspect it may be an electrical issue with the system.