Homeowners don't buy 30k houses that's the hood who wants to buy in the HOOD to live there... not many it strictly a D class rental game for those with the intestinal fortitude to make those properties work or those that sell them to unsuspecting out of state or country investors who end up losing all their money.

Steel wool should be used as rodents will ingest and it then blocks there intestines and kills them.

I think sitting on the sidelines also assumes that you have the skills, the wisdom, the financial backing, and the intestinal fortitude to watch a market fall apart and pick that time to invest. 

Hello fellow BP members, I have an intestine question.

Do you have the intestinal fortitude to stomach these times?

Great work @Luka Milicevic and intestine story.

I make a decent living as an LT and with a little extra research, effort, and intestinal fortitude I'm gradually progressing as an effective manager of 6 units.

They have the capital and expertise to make stuff happen when they want to but also  the financial strength to absorb a loss when they need to get out and the intestinal fortitude to retrade deal terms when they deem it necessary. 

I would caution you to make sure you have the Intestinal Fortitude to be a Landlord before you travel down this trail. 

And I'll tell you what, beyond the point that they didn't pay rent for 1.5 years out of 2, they trashed the house so badly and entirely that the sister of that guy who lived there with his family, came to clean up after them feeling bas for the landlord, even advised to police officer against entering the house, that revolting it was - 3 dogs' feces IN THE HOUSE everywhere, raw nasty meat and intestines all around that they fed to their 3 dogs (the dogs appeared sick and looked abused), that was all over their yard and by their neighbors as well including our own, with green bottle flies everywhere, and it was in summer, when it stunk enormously!