:Class A Properties:Cashflow vs Appreciation: Typically, 3-5 years for positive cashflow, but you get highest relative rent & value appreciation.Vacancy Est: Historically 10%, 5% the more recent norm.Tenant Pool: Majority will have FICO scores of 680+ (roughly 5% probability of default), zero evictions in last 7 years.Class B Properties:Cashflow vs Appreciation: Typically, decent amount of relative rent & value appreciation.Vacancy Est: Historically 10%, 5% should be applied only if proper research done to support.Tenant Pool: Majority will have FICO scores of 620-680 (around 10% probability of default), some blemishes, but should have no evictions in last 5 yearsClass C Properties:Cashflow vs Appreciation: Typically, high cashflow and at the lower end of relative rent & value appreciation.

Is there decent exit strategies?

Think 5-6% CAP rates.B class areas= Moderate year-over-year price appreciation, decent public schools, lower crime.

So seems like a decent play for cash flow but not much for appreciation.

Most people I know don't want to see decent working people trucked off to another country but they also don't want to see criminal enterprise around trafficking people.

I've been looking in Indianapolis mainly, got a team there, been hunting aggressively for almost 2 months.

They just started sending me promotional emails again since a month or so back and their prices look decent.

That said, it's nearly impossible to find a decent option under $300k in those locations.If you have an apetite for rolling the dice and saying "I'm so glad I bought this ten years ago!"

If your comps were sold by a real estate agent and you are using them to justify your price, that is like trying to sell your car at a car salesman's price instead of an owner's price.In any case, if you need to lower the price, make sure that the price drop is a decent amount versus a "drop in the bucket."

For less risk, consider hard money or a business LOC.Remember that LLC might help in tax savings if you are going to have decent profit.