So you have cash return, plus opportunity cost.The other factor is how you are calculating cash flow.

If you are studying a market, look up a town's employment rate history, population growth over the last 10-20 years, do some google searches for large employers such as area hospitals, factories, company headquarters, schools, and colleges.  

Talking with different people it seems a huge factor is how clean, organized and neat the rental is.

On the cabinets I am doing, I didn't use that as I wanted the cabinets to be super smooth and have a shine like you see on new factory finished cabinets.

Well, I'm at 42 units and I'm not sure I've convinced her that real estate is a great way to achieve financial independence for our family.I've replaced my factory job income and am working on increasing cash flow to the point where I can pay myself more and more and hopefully at some point replace her income and health insurance benefits.

The other factor is that she will also be able to be there for you so you don't have to shoulder this burden alone.

Finally he gets a piece work stint, at half the old salary, at a local but dismal factory.

The real X factor is moving dead equity into higher cash flowing properties.

Another huge contributing factor is all the “investors” flooding the market trying to make a quick buck in a short time.

They are also concerened about getting paid so we took the worry out of that too, and as you suggested, we pay them automatically with Paypal through the UI of the software.The other critcal factor is training.