@Eric Gamble So true.

thanks  , looking into 2 or 3  single family homes ...3-1  ...great price  , but rents are about 700 /month   , according to realtor  , better side of town and i also have a friend that lives 15m  away  , i am gonna gamble and try and close on 2 homes  , thanks again for insight

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/retirement-gamble/?

Being "sure" you will get something of a CoC higher than cost of financing the car is a gamble without validating that assumption, which is what my point was: work the numbers out to gain confidence in that common sense.

If I was a gambling man, I would say you got it in Columbus or Cleveland, question is if you found it in a good part of town or the bad.

But it's a gamble, right?

It's a gamble if you just leave them in random places.

One CASH flow is everything and the only reason to own rentals is to get the max amount of cash flow possible and appreciation is gambling luck or whatever. 

Another thing, even if you find a partner who can put in the capital, do you think he/she will be willing to gamble their money with a newbie?

So here they are spending thousands of dollars, with full confidence when they are literally gambling with their money with the odds being against them.See it this way.