This would help everyone feel confident that your reviews come from genuine firsthand experience rather than potentially biased marketing. 

The market appreciates 3% per year.Pay cash for one house and rent it for $1,500.

Since your goal is lowering monthly payments for better cash flow, it might be worth focusing on reducing expenses elsewhere or exploring other investment strategies.

With 179 you are going to be limited based on your percentage of business use with the vehicle (so still need to track mileage), and if you go under 50% business use you can end up with a recapture of your prior 179 deduction - income with no related cash flow is always a bit uncomfortable!

If they appeal offer some cash for keys.

@Jonathan Greene I'm not sure what you mean by "most will not cash flow as an out-of-country investor" as it might suggest that the cash-flow of a given property has something to do with the nationality or residence of the owner but, in any case, you're absolutely correct that, historically, the net rental yields of LTRs in US cash-flow markets like the Mid-West have been typically higher than in the average European market, although that wouldn't be the case for many other US markets like California or New York.

Offer to give them their full deposit in cash on move-out day, if they leave the place clean and empty, etc.  

Our investors benefit from immediate equity creation, and long term predictable cash flow, overall a great investment for us!

The maintenance and cap ex will kill the cash flow at that low a valuation.

But he stuck with me I had a 1 mil credit line that they kept in place so I could make money it was on 90 day extensions for 3 years :( but if they had not done that I would have had to give them the keys back on a few commercial buildings I ate 250k negative cash flow on those buildings to make sure the bank got all their money..