Not everyone can do that but with high interest rates more cash is needed.

Rural town but within walking distance to an elementary school, a high school and a nice restaurant.

  - Core Inflationary pressures remain high.

If the complainer can't smell it in their apartment, but, are uptight enough to be bothered by the passing smell in the hallway...it may not be the smoker that has the problem.I have found that complainers/boat rockers are often wound a bit to tight, and that when you are a highly responsive empathetic landlord, they turn you in to their own personal karma delivery machine, to right all the wrongs that previously fallen on deaf ears.Good luck.

With broad, high-level criteria, you may be able to easily cross of a number of neighborhoods where the numbers simply do not make sense (assuming you already have your buy box nailed down).

Do you think that demand will be high for something like that? 

Because I live in a neighborhood that has no crime but it shows up as very high crime because we had two neighbors who would call the cops over each others dogs barking so it lit it up to show it as negative…

I generally rule out most single family homes as viable rentals, as prices are pretty high relative to rents, so aside from some downtown neighborhoods, typically you do not find large areas of single family rental neighborhoods (a median sale price on a 3 bed, 2 bath home so far this year in Dane County on MLS sales data is at $430k). 

However, the high down payment and reliance on a DSCR loan could limit flexibility, especially with your DTI constraints.

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