More than 1/2 of that is HOA issues, so if you don’t have them you should be spending 15 -30 minutes a year with a bookkeeper, a few hours without. 

Property taxes in Rowan County are generally reasonable, but confirm specific numbers and any potential HOA fees or maintenance costs.

Send me a DM with your full number (purchase price, estimated sale price, current mortgage payment, hoa(?)

If they don't have them already, sometimes there are movements within HOA to implement them. 

Pete) and have narrowed it down to finding a single family home with a pool in the unincorporated Bay Pines area or Indian Rocks Beach (note, it took a long time for me to get over my beach view condo dream in a popular area but HOA fees and restrictions helped!).

There are a lot of condos for sale: are condos an investment to stay away from due to HOA fees and other fees? 

.$$ Range = max 250kDown payment = max 25%Goal = Positive cash flowBelow are the areas i have done some research on so far.Fayetteville, NC Like the fact that there property taxes are low, hence the rental comps vs expenses (mortgage + property taxes + hoa + insurance etc) are kind of breakeven or slight positive cash flow is possible.

HOA's are mostly why they don't work well.

New user, first time post.Trying to gather info for an HOA Board about possibly having the HOA buy 'bulk' cable TV, Internet (Wi-Fi) with VOIP for use by each owner in a 55 year old and over HOA with 62 dwelling, plus a clubhouse with at least two additional TV usage locations (main clubhouse room, plus exercise room).Cox/Xfinity is the current supplier for the entire property which only has coax cables installed on the property below ground.

No pool, HOA is $235/month.Year Built: 1964What do you think?