I stay close to public transportation which tends to increase rents. 

There is a fairly-recent thread that showed how unregulated the business is, and how easily one can fall into subpar hands.

Hi Eric,Lots of investors are working in Deanwood because the housing stock is relatively cheap there and it has good public transportation access with the metro station.

Public transport is not really a big thing in Little Rock, except near downtown and a few other places.

When an industry is unregulated, it breeds problems and people getting taken advantage of, so that's why people don't like it.  

The schools are fantastic, I have public transportation to work, and am just outside the beltway.  

Depending on your Buying Capacity/Lending you might be overpriced directly in the University Locations and might want to identify some 'fringe neighborhoods' with solid transportation and rental numbers. * Community Banks and or Direct Lenders offer relationships with the banks (Should have Bank at the end of there name)* I own 25+ plus properties and have used some good and bad - let me know if you need introductions.* Working with real estate agents that are 'transactional' meaning using there money not syndicating others for future gain at the ones to work with neighborhood to neighborhood* they should be familiar with what projects, developments are on the rise impacting neighborhoods you are considering.* Delassandro's, Tony Luke's and Chubby's , Jimmy's, Joe's Steaks - Do not get sold out to the tourist traps.Let me know if you have any questions.Regards,Joe Scorese

The logical explanation is that the grocery store invested money, time, and expertise into the transportation, display, and sale of the apples, and therefore deserves the extra money...man this stresses me out...The next time this came up was with a different speaker.

When done correctly this can easily equal or exceed the $ value of buying something used and rehabbing it, without any of the time, effort, complexity and $ uncertainty (hidden defects) of that process.It might be useful to think of it like buying fleet vehicles for a transportation business.

(Sometimes communities will require a certain amount of yard per SF of House footprint.)You could check on Craig's List to see what the difference in rental rates are Parking/no parking.By the way, how close are you to public transportation?