Typically 80's & 90's tract-built homes, with solid rental bases.  

Digest as much as you can

Complete do it yourself manual reader's digest.

Reaching out to the experts here in tony tract-built townhouses, but this may be of interest to anyone with kids.

And they do it knowing people will just accept it as "tract home" quaility.Some developers have more tolerance for things like this than others.

My wife had IBS that had her digestive system in terrible condition, really really bad.

But its still work you still have to deal with tenants turn overs ... other things like that.. the most passive I see with folks that have some serious liquidity already IE been high w2 folks is notes.. those can be truly passive done right.. for the big hits  land development in path of progress is killer but risk/reward is the mantra there.2018 for us should be a nice year  probably close to 30 million in new home sales a few larger tracts bought and either flipped to lennar or Horton 150 to 200 lot tracks.. and our note business is in full maturity.. and it only took me 40 years to do all this... so all you youngsters out there have some patience.. 10 to 20k is nice but its not retirement when you start really living the investor life.. at least for me.

Pulling comps, census tract info, etc.

Not sure if the county provides this data in an easy to digest format, but I am looking into online options.

Had my eye on a 60 acre tract last year just outside of San Marcos.