maybe even just a guts feeling about it.Is there a good resource I can get a precise answer to that?

I would be particularly interested in understanding more about how the taxation works in the USA with regards rental income, and more precisely would I be at an advantage/ disadvantage due to the fact that I would have no other employment income/ would not be resident in the USA.  

So an accurate average monthly for snow plow will never be precisely $50.

That's precisely what I'm worried about, things like insurance, etc.

Drive up and down the streets of one of these markets, all those boarded up windows are precisely the result of folks choosing this exact exit strategy.

That said, it is precisely where risk is misunderstood that it is often mis-priced, and that there are boatloads of $ to be made.

@Zak Kazanski Yes, precisely.

@Bodhayan SharmaRules of Thumbs are back of the envelope formulas which gives you an idea, but you need to do a complete analysis to get a more precise answer. 

An equation like that would have many elements including the underlying market risk of each invested asset, the way that asst performs in relation to the underlying market, and many other factors.I was considering writing it out and graphing the true risk of investments given different LTV's in order to justify precisely calculate the theories that are espoused on this forum and then comparing them to different sliding scale stress tests in order to see how we could deviate without increasing true risk.

precisely because they would have to "bring a check" to the closing table, in order to move forward, and move on...As for signing a "non compete," "non disclosure" and whatever else a realtor agreed they'd do, not do, or not "disclose..."