The CPI (which leaves out fuel and food) exceeded 4% over that same period. 

I also assumed by trash, you literally meant garbage (ie food) and you may have meant something else. 

I'm a new investor looking for my first property in the DMV area and for other investors to connect with.A little about me - I went to the University of Maryland, College Park for my B.S. in Nutrition and Food Science, concentration in Dietetics, and graduated mid-pandemic in the spring of 2020.

I'm not sure the best process or route to go with this. 

Just some food for thought.

A part of me wants to do a rent to own and keep it one single family 4/2 house and have the downstairs tenants go upstairs to cook food, and just rent it out for him for market rent which is about $2,400 and then give him his $1,200 plus some extra and keep the rest.

Food for thought.

If you have 0 care for risk level well hell, let's go for it and do some Air-America crazy sh#t in say the Philippines, and go for a 180X factor...... if we don't get shot in the process, or realize the 97.89% probability of failure and loss of everything. 

I had a major indoor fly problem one time and I finally discovered that the source was the garbage disposal that had old food it in but had not been run in a while.

There are a lot of courses and gurus out there who make it seem like its very lucrative, but if you do not have the funds to scale the business you are better off working at the local fast food joint for $8-$15/hr as the time you will spend on a non performing note.