A lot of these "Landlords" may have learned from Gurus who preached cash flow properties which can be made in "C" and "D" neighborhoods.They don't really educate these Landlords about the fact that your tenant due diligence in these kinds of neighborhoods are almost useless, especially on the Credit Checks side.It's really a huge contrast on what I do for tenant due diligence in my "A" neighborhoods versus what a friend, Steve, who owns in "C" neighborhoods do for his tenant due diligence.Steve knows that pulling a Credit Report will get someone with Credit below 600, normally.

In addition, you may want to consider investing in a pro owners state where tenancy law is strongly regulated in favour of the property owners, in contrast with a pro tenants state with rent strongly regulated in favour of the tenants because rent are strictly controlled by laws set far below reasonable returns on investment. 

The fix and flip market (especially for high-end, luxury properties) is so hot because wider margins exist.In contrast, Chicago has seen median home sales prices increase 32% from $167K to $221K during that same time period.

You do your best to find a couple sold and settled similar properties, compare and contrast features and condition, and make your best judgment.  

By contrast, San Francisco's residential population has been dropping but household income and unemployment both are strong (meaning low unemployment rate).

. - Fake Plants: Adding more fake plants I think will contrast and extend the coziness of your place!

Contrast this with basically vetting a syndicator or using a syndicator of syndicators that choose the syndications for a portion of the return and can exert much more effort and capital vetting the chosen syndications.  

What has kept me involved up to this point is a consciousness of where I want to be in contrast to where I am now.  

For the inside we used black heat resistant paint to contrast to white and the black.

To create more contrast between the bottom & top.