In west coast markets and especially in HI you can command much more property than you can buying. 1a) use that money to buy rentals out of state where numbers make sense 1b) do your active investing activities such as rehabbing flipping. 2) get a Heloc and do 1a and 1bIf you don't like any of these answers or not willing to do it then you need to make some concessions in life.

You might call the We Buy Houses people from bandit signs and see if you can buy their deals, or to flip deals to them.I also learned that I like military tenants because I can go through chain of command for late rents, if needed.

Second, you have home-field advantage when it comes to knowing what rents you can command in what areas, and the expenses you will incur.

Why Wholesale it when you can Wholetail it and command a higher price through the MLS.

However, one or two cities away with units built within the last three years you can command $200-300 more per month.This may simply be a function of landlords having more price flexibility to cover the older (i.e. cheaper) mortgages.

Just have to be careful, there are alot of REO's listed in rough areas, but I think alot of Investors dont realize this and this could hurt them in the long run becuase they will only be able to command a certain level of rents and flipping them will take sometime once they are rehabbed.

Higher-end properties just don't command the same rent-to-price ratio as homes valued at, or below, the median home price in a given market.

Towns must determine their value based on their current use without regard to the price they could command if they were offer for sale on the open market.

Definitely include the things you consistently see on all of the examples, and pick and choose what you may or may not want from each one (some examples may have small things others don't).The one thing that has provided me with a feeling of safety (and this doesn't apply to every landlord, I use it because so far my tenants have all been military), is making sure there's a clause where the tenant provides the information of their 1st Sergeant and/or Commander, and gives me permission to contact them should any issues arise.

I have a trip planned out in December to check out some neighborhoods so let's hope that my command approves it.