I haven't put pen-to-paper on the numbers but it would appear that each year you keep the property the more "modest" cash-flow the overall rate of return would decline.   

My duplexes are the least profitable and most time consuming.

I increase the rent every other year and usually I try to keep it modest, around 5-6%, if they have been a good tenant. 

Many consumers also have alerts set up to show these same three terms. 

It will consume 100% of your time.Getting into real estate investing at this point will be worse than having twins.

So I decided to leave my career and pursue real estate so I could have the flexibility to care for my boy.I consumed everything about real estate. 

Jack just have them deposit it into escrow like any other deal.. and a notarized document does not mean squat it only means it was notarized how on earth do you think that would help you if they did not pay you LOL.. you would have to sue them and that's expensive and time consuming just like you found out when you got in the squabble over the 10k EM.I have had a few of my notes I carried on bare land that turned out the buyers were growing weed and they wanted to pay me off in cash..

Getting lists from the counties, but this will be time consuming and usually they don't break it down much. 

What happens to consumers buying habbit's for properties as rates go up or down, is that the buyer moves up or down in price point, but so do largely the buyers who can afford less or more than a specific buyer.

There's basically a strategy we use sometimes to shove all the consumer debt into the name of the spouse with a day-job, which frees up the investor spouse's DTI for debt covered by cashflow.