It sounds like a classic Landlord mistake.

Lastly, a very dark red-orange for the entry door (I'd lose the screen/storm door).For the roof, use black shingles, and if you really want a nice classic finishing touch, do a standing-seam metal roof on the porch.You might want to replace the railings with something nicer that has simple newel posts at the bottom, wouldn't cost too much, and would be a bit more welcoming.

You get experience being a landlord, and you get the benefits of owning rentals, and you get to live RENT FREE, making it easier to save towards your next purchase - your classic WIN WIN WIN scenario!

The classic laissez-faire approach of find some seed capital, buy a unit, rent it out, and only come and fix things when they break just doesn't seem right any more especially with the rise of services like Airbnb.

You have to go into the "Classic Google Voice" interface to update the caller id settings. 

That caused her to raise additional funds from new investors in order to pay the earnings owed to the others — a classic Ponzi scenario — prosecutors said.That right there!!

This is the classic risk vs reward scenario.  

It's an older book but still a classic great read.

So basically if you are a cash flow investor you will be competing with people that are just looking to park their money long term (classic doctors lawyers etc behavior:)) and with so called "investors" that have been sitting on the side line so long to wait for all the world to agree that real estate is a good investment and want to jump on the band wagon at any cost now that the parade has been rolling through town for years:).

Sounds like a classic bait and switch.