She is a teacher and also super busy with her church so she's barely home.

Based on his last post, @Samuel Kim now seems to think it’s pointless for him and his wife to explore this topic over posts made by professionals who barely know anything about his situation. 

Just need to finish planting peanut grass around the bare areas. 

Ok, then there "benefits" get cut to that bare bones "survival" minimum.

I am not a tax adviser and barely graduated high school so I am not sure if I would listne to me. 

I (barely) watched some of the podcasts cause BP shows up on my youtube feed when I travel. 

With that being said, the interest rate is going to be the single biggest determining factor for whether you're barely breaking even, or seeing a decent monthly cash flow.

I'm barely competent managing rentals in my backyard in NC. 

They barely lasted in California (they are based on London).The challenge is (1) you are assuming all listings have open houses and (2) there are a lot of moving parts that can happen behind the scenes.

I have done some deals that barely have a little positive cash flow in neighborhoods that I know very well and know that the house should appreciate well and that I will have no problem always finding great tenants.Hope all this helps.