Screening tenants is arguably the most important part to the first leg of property management.

You mentioned buying a fixer upper with your HELOC and now are talking about a 20% down payment.

And what is your price point and are you looking for turn-key properties or something along the lines of a "fixer upper"?

A handy search bar in the upper right makes it easy to find previous discussions, blogs, podcasts, and other resources.

A handy search bar in the upper right makes it easy to find previous discussions, blogs, podcasts, and other resources.

A handy search bar in the upper right makes it easy to find previous discussions, blogs, podcasts, and other resources.

A lot of young professionals like this area so furnishings should be modern and "upper-middle end", if that makes sense.

Any home you buy with $20,000 is likely going to be a fixer-upper, which means it can be heavy on repairs, turnover costs, vacancies, etc.

(I like to refer to this as our local version of 20+ years of the Elizabeth Warren effect;) This, combined with a healthy dose of nutso nimby activists excel at limiting supply, making SF property an even more exclusive and desirable “achievement” for the upper class to obtain.

I have also seen that appreciation kept up at 5% in that part of KS-Wichita being in upper 5s.