When I was 15 I lied about my age and got a w2 job at a video store so I could get paid and rent movies for free.

Have you ever watched the movie "Brewster's Millions"? 

To coin a famous movie line by Tom Hanks, "Of course it's hard, if it was easy everyone would do it.  

(The movie "Shawshank Redemption" comes to mind, when Andy asks for a rock hammer).

I agree with Bishoy,job growth and steady large employers are key to determining a healthy rental area.Indianapolis,Memphis and Dallas are great because they have affordable properties to buy to rent to steady employees like truck drivers,FedEx,UPS,and air cargo employees whose jobs aren't being shipped to China or anywhere else.Alabama has car and aircraft manufacturers growing and moving in there.North Carolina has techies escaping the high cost of California.God knows everybody is looking to move to Texas for manufacturing what little we still make in America.Georgia has become one of the biggest areas for filming Hollywood movies cheaper.That is where my money is headed in the next 3 years of buying properties.

In this day and age of pirating music, games and movies, your internet provider will give you up in a NY minute to the authorities.

Lake county was no different and the towns on NICE Lucerne Clear lake Oaks and Clearlake / Clear lake park were all platted in 1922 to 1926.. the lots in those days were given away in green stamp type programs  as bonus's for going to the movies etc etc.. so then the lots started to get traded at tax sales since they were not buildable.enter the 50. 60 70.. my dads attorney started acquiring 100s to thousands of them in the late 50s my dad started working with him mid 60s and by mid 70s he had done well over 4,000 lots in that county and owned half of Nice most of Clearlake Oaks and probably 1/10 of city of clearlake..

My wife and I just came back from her late father's property (5 bed 3 bath 2500 sq ft) in Colorado, it looks like the house from the amityville horror movie on the outside.

Once you get your tenants movie in (All units have separate meters), do the tenants have to sign up with the gas company, utility power company and water company so they get bills in their own name sent to their unit?

They look like b- horror movie film sites.So, come on in, the water is fine.