I never really understood the discrepancy in the sub markets except maybe people can wrap their heads around renting out 1 unit versus maybe they are scared of having more then one tenant?

At first we thought he was just incredibly incompetent and over his head, and we wearily gave him some patience to get his act together all the while pressing him for at least partial payment.

(prorating utilities by tenant head count for instance). 

There are a few questions off the top of head. 

Flipping is about as least passive as it comes, so just make sure you wrap your head around how much time and management it will take to be successful flipping.For anyone getting started, I always suggest these 3 steps:1. 

Seems like you have a good head on your shoulders.

I'd like some input on wrapping my head around a potential first house and if this sort of deal/rent makes sense.

This is my first property so of course it's harder to keep my head in the game with %100 vacancy. 

I believe, off the top of my head, it's single digits of rents actually have rent reported to bureaus. 

Just heard a talking head on the radio today who had moved to Phoenix bemoaning how he missed the food scene in Tucson.