left the place trashy but not trashed.I also once "self-evicted" a tenant before I knew the legality of what I was doing but since I found the drug paraphernalia while moving his stuff, I don't think he was going to complain.

You are definitely a dealer.

The 24inch units are actually less expensive and more readily available; there are fewer manufacturers for 18inch, and those are not always in stock at dealers.

Read the possible drug dealing tenant thread.

A good friend of mine is in finance -- trader/equity analyst at a prominent broker/dealer -- and he's able to derive all kinds of economic information from the Census/Labor stats.Hope that helps.Anthony

I did end up renting him a room with an owner-occupant-student because I liked his rules concerning no alcohol, no drugs, no noise, no overnight guests, males only, etc.

These properties are sold to "dealers" landlords or rehabbers or to someone who can buy who generally has the intension of curing the issue that keeps the property from being retailed.

You can get great steady numbers in smaller rural markets if you know what you are doing...or some of the cities...drugs and crime are sadly everywhere these days...but the midwest and north (outside of slum cities) tend to have people with better values.

95% of the homeless population is too drug addicted or mentally handicapped to deal with housing.

Lot of drugs and low income housing.