Provide more programs for Start ups.Remove The Cap on Social Security.Provide a "Rational" National Health Care Plan.Change Hiring Practices to make it nearly Impossible for Illegal Emigrants to get Jobs.Drug testing for Welfare.Restructure food stamps to be more like WIC.

This is especially true if you want to live in areas which are considered high-class but where the rent to value ration is absurd.

Maybe your judgement criteria is a bit skewed and you could rethink things in a more rational way?

We have always taken it one property/loan at a time, one concern for us is if we got one loan then tried to get the second the bank may not qualify us based on income to debt rations if it dues not include the $2875 rental income the properties are producing.

I may be in the minority but I avoid scratch and dent for a rational or maybe irrational fear. 

I would need to know the value that particular group provides before I would rationalize that kind of trip.Carolina, my concern is overlooking something or not knowing enough.

Terry your thought seems very rational but when I was going thru this process and went to two different DMV office's and spoke to probably 6-7 different government workers, nobody came up with this solution for me.

I'm able to control the re-sale in calm and rational manner.

Another reality is many of these landlords/property managers don't have data collection (appliance types, maintenance records, etc.) at the level needed to make rational informed decisions.

We brought a 5-plex to RBC last fall with a debt coverage ration of 1.7 and only paid 20% down.