Good seeing you again.Hello Sir. life does get in the way at times   Almost lost my wife 3 years ago    She was truly living dead!

And if someone is allergic to wasp, bee, or yellow jacket stings, they can be deadly. 

Batteries go dead and you can;t get in.

For supercharged cash flow I like this rule of thumb as my #s seem to flesh out well w/in these margins:1BR under $100K2BR under $200K3BR under $300K4BR under $400KMaybe you can go up a notch on each if you want to break even w/cash flow...so to each his own w/that.Of course if they are being sold furnished / turnkey, I'd add in $5-10K of value (depending on how nicely furnished it is) per bedroom.  

The original poster is dead on about probates vs short sales.

I am totally not judging your either, for all I know you have been doing this for 20 years, however, by what you're saying, well, it's sorta a dead giveaway... 

Having a few "dead" weeks where no one wants to see houses, so you decide to go down the shore for the weekend.

So calling on a listing that has a property management company already managing the property is a dead end.

I’ve been hitting dead ends as far as finding funding options being an out of town investor in the Pittsburgh area.

In my area it is common for landlords to pay for heat which promotes a lot of abuse with the system in that tenants keep the heat at unreasonably high temperatures and often open the windows in the dead of winter when it can be -20 out.