I know it was a little bit of a read, but the process I took has helpful in understanding where I stood in this time in the economy. 

I am not complaining.There was one post that really stood out for me and I must thank Ms.

He was showing me the properties he bought there (all SFH) and many were nice (one that stood out was a brick house he paid around 40K for; I forget the monthly rent but I remember being impressed).  

Upon inspection, we discovered that the trusses were not plum.

As pointed out by others there are other more important metrics such as COC return.One thing that stood out from your example is that when going from $225K offer to $235K your cash flow went from $408 to $280.

What stood about about the neighborhoods and would you invest again or avoid? 

I stood politely firm, letting them know we sadly cannot accommodate requests like these as easily as hotels as when someone books are property, they are booking our whole property.

We looked at a bunch of properties in the first few days and nothing stood out to us, then the day before we were supposed to fly home our realtor found a duplex that had just come on the market.

It was getting cold he said ok I also explained to him the outside ac  fan had a Edison summer saver plans which turns the fan off at certain times he under stood but wanted the box off so I called Edison And had the box taken off problem solved .a week after  i got a call from tenents saying they got a message via text from the water company stating continuing runner water possible leak.so I went noticed they were running a swamp cooler 24/7 they said the ac bill was high so weve been using a swamp cooler,and they filled up a above ground pool .i asked them did they call the water company to let them know of the pool fill up they said they didn’t.i called the water company to talk to them about the running water text my tenants got and explained to them  they run a swamp cooler that runs on the water faucet and they fillled a pool ,and all the household water use from  big family.the water company said that’s why there getting that text.they also said that for me to talk about there account water usage they have to call and give permission so I asked the tenants they refused.its gets better,I get another call from the tenants now sayin one of the toilets are making a noise.so thinking the worst I go just a stuck handle.so while I was here I th ought I might as well change out  all fill valves and floaters for all three bathrOoms so I did.was there a few hours making sure they were running properly and leaks.i remind you that was on a  Thursday.on Monday my tenants send me a bill via picture text from  a plumber saying all toilets leaking cleaned out all fill valves because they were clog and put in new flappers leak fixed.i asked the tenants why’ didn’t he cal l me he  had no excuse,so  I called the plumber he said they clogged  and he cha changed the flappers.so i come  Back how’s that if I just put all of that new four days Pryor on Thursday he couldn’t answer me free.now im getting I’m not  paying  my water bill because of the leak.now they sent me there water bill .with previous charges from there old residents claiming it as part of  a leak.do they think I’m stupid,there clearly trying to scam me.they won’t  Give me permission to talk to the water company and  the plumber is his good friend.

Slab on grade ranch style with a truss roof would be the least expensive option.