Bad tenants come from every nationality and race, and if you didn't screen well, them being there could partially be your own fault. vacancy and turn over of the house should have been something you worked into your budget when you bought the place.

Remember, Mortgages get sold to someone, and while it's a long custody chain with many "horse-swapping" in the mix, at end of day is the investor who is deciding where to plop down another few dozen million.

As long as you do your due diligence, when people are telling you you're crazy, you're probably doing something right...to rise above the rat race and start making your money work for you!

I'm going to go with a dark horse and say Minneapolis-St Paul. 

This seems to me to be a typical cart before the horse issue.

The problem is most people think this way and you end up with an over supply of basic 3/2 properties and when those properties start to not get booked, it is a race to the bottom in pricing as they do not demand higher rates over the competition.

Owner shall pay, except as provided elsewhere in thisAgreement, all expenses incurred by the Agent, including, but not limited to, reasonable attorney’s fees and Agent’s costs andtime in connection with any claim, proceeding, or suit involving an alleged violation by the Agent or Owner, or both, of any lawpertaining to fair employment, fair credit reporting, environmental protection, rent control, taxes, or fair housing, including, butnot limited to, any law prohibiting, or making illegal, discrimination on the basis of race, sex, creed, color, religion, national origin,age, marital status, or mental or physical handicap, provided, however, that the Owner shall not be responsible to the Agent forany expenses in the event that Agent is finally adjudicated to have personally, and not in a representative capacity, violated anysuch law, unless such acts and or omissions are outside the course and scope of Agent’s duties hereunder.

It's a long game and slow and steady still wins the race.

. :-)One place had 9 dogs kept inside, goats penned on the porches, goats in a horse trailer and birds caged in the garage.

Teams often race through blizzards causing whiteout conditions, sub-zero temperatures and gale-force winds which can cause the wind chill to reach −100 °F (−73 °C)."