Your best bet is to partner with someone with a great deal of experience.

What I also enjoy is when people put out articles with contradicting view points and in six months or a year point to the - "see how correct i was", well yeah you placed bets on both red, black and green so you were going to be correct because you bet on all options.

If your bet is appreciation, bet your underlying fixed costs go up.

Perhaps not a trend to consider across the city but any neighborhood that would attract college educated young professional families seems to be a good bet if you wanted to focus on this asset type.I plan to build 12 townhomes as a second phase of a condo/townhome project in a good area of Mount Airy near the Chestnut Hill boarder and even though I’m likely to years away from being ready to begin phase 2, my current plans are to keep the 12 homes as rentals for the precise reasons I outlined above.  

Madison and Rankin county is much safer.

I really see Columbus Ohio as an extremely safe bet for the next 10-20 years.

@Tom Gimer  I bet Tom being an owner of a title company and an attorney might be able to assist or comment on this scenario..

Often, safer to file with the understanding those fees may be wasted, but better than waiting and then the tenant does NOT vacate (causing more lost time/rent).Usually court date will be 2-3 weeks after filing, which means 1st or 2nd week of following month.

If that's the case, then your next best bet is really concentrate on your studies.

(We had some bad subs at points) but I bet if you check your gaps you’ll find your problem.