The wealth building upside and cash flow on these properties can be very substantial, keep grinding until you find a deal, and don't engage with trolls / naysayers, they'll just sap your energy.   

This gives retirees more money on their dollar, while getting them out of the management responsibilities they had energy for in their youth. 

Bathroom is in much needed work and biting the bullet to renovate it.

Totally Off grid with micro hydro,48v dc to Pure sine wave inverter(5500 watts) New Trojan Batteries (Renewable energy) Have two springs one is for drinking water and other is for water turbine.(90 gallons per minute and 175 foot of head/drop in elevation) still a project in progress as we have plans to convert into a functional micro farm with greenhouses etc producing all natural Non GMO vegetables that are ORGANIC.

Totally Off grid with micro hydro,48v dc to Pure sine wave inverter(5500 watts) New Trojan Batteries (Renewable energy) Have two springs one for drinking water and other is for water turbine.(90 gallons per minute and 175 foot of head/drop in elevation) still in progress as we have plans to convert into a functional micro farm with greenhouses all natural Non GMO vegetables that are ORGANIC.Breaking ground on year round heated greenhouse this summer.2019 What made you interested in investing in this type of deal?

Look I would only use the 1% rule as a minimum gage in general and I would want more for me personally . no ,I don’t need a bullet proof vest or ak47  to collect rent lol and yes You are certainly going to have more challenges and yes it’s going to be hands on management  to operate in these areas .

Because you're having trouble finding deals, investing some energy into people that already have developed systems and ways of getting you deals could be worth your time, but totally your call!

If none of these ideas work, you may need to just bite the bullet and sink some money into marketing.

However, the seller was so far behind on the electric bill that WE Energies refused to switch over service until they had some sort of proof that ownership had changed.

My motto is "if bullets are flyin' I ain't buyin".Then I narrowed things down to two or three cities in each state and then sectioned the cities into zip codes.