After that I learned how to do graphics, websites & promotions such as getting radio & tv commercials, printing flyers, b-cards & a whole lot more.

However most people don't have the direct mail, printing, graphics resources I have.

. • Rent Range: If the majority of the population to which you want to rent are willing and able to pay $1,000/Mo to $1,300/Mo. you should only be looking at properties that you can purchase, rehab and profitably rent in the same rent range.Below is a graphic illustrating the above.Where can you quickly get this information?

SInce these "rules" seem to be a guiding light for so many, instead of crunching actual numbers, and since these "rules" are rather flexible given the price point and other considersations, maybe we should have a graphic or grid that would identify the best per centages to use for the different property types, for a banded analysis concidering price, market and investment aggressiveness (like a bond rating in reverse) to the risk tolerance..

I hear you, Jay.James has the best graphic tenant horror stories. 

I have a background in computer graphics (prepress), and class B CDL (bus driver license).

You can see from the graphic below where it is located in the park. 

I have this math in an excel spreadsheet and I verify and plug the info in, this graphic is simply to illustrate to tenants how the choice was made.

@Mindy Jensen I hope you don't mind but I went ahead and stole a graphic from one of @Brandon Turner's articles.

These skills include graphic visualization and rendering, energy modeling, sustainable site management and building design, to name a few.