@Michelle Mapp: sorry for peppering you with questions, but why do you want to get them out of your personal names?

You have older larger homes being rehabbed 70- 140k going into them, there are duplexes peppered throughout those areas.  

Typically we do a beef steak and strips of onion and bell peppers, but you can really use anything.

@Glenna Quarles Bryant A gun, pepper spray, taser, bullet proof windows(to prevent your windows from being broken), situational awareness, not wearing a $10,000 watch, etc.

Bring someone with you and a gun or at the very least pepper spray.  

Two things to keep in mind when searching this area for STR properties; the first being FR/WC is peppered with HOAs that have unfavorable regulations for STRs and secondly cell service all but disappears in the southern half of the county.

This is black soil   Your probably in rock  I have done truck farming vegetables on two acres and did peppers on 6 acres for two years.

Pepper do well also but Mountain Dew sells like nothing else).

But that same exact story is true of both of my other investment properties that are now netting me over $1k each per month.The building is in Southeast Washington, DC, a neighborhood that has a bad reputation, but with the entire rest of the city exploding into a kind of gentrification I've seen nowhere else, it is inevitable that it will eventually swallow up that area as well, eventually....Truthfully, I purchased high and knew the situation with the neighborhood: lots of voucher tenants, low rents peppered with luxury units popping up here and there, crime, the reputation, all of that.

Plenty of salt and black pepper.