It is also important to make sure you are not selecting investments only for the presumed tax benefits. 

But analysts didn't treat their whiteness as the primary thing that determined their political behavior, in the way that, say, Latino voters are almost always presumed to vote based on ethnic considerations.But the Obama-Clinton rivalry seems to have changed all that, and we're now openly discussing white working-class voters in ways that make clear that their racial interests play a role in their political preferences.

This, presumably, is because a problem with one property will put the others at risk.Daniel

Ludmila:I presume you have calculated what it will cost you to make this property rent-ready and know the market rent for the area.With these two numbers and your "opportunity cost" you can calculate the maximum you could pay for the house and still have it make a suitable return.Where does that number lay in relation to the Vendor's asking price?  

I don't want to give them the idea that I am willing to pay 10% if they would do it for 7%.The reason I assumed it might be different by class of property is because, as others have mentioned, a class C property tends to attract less stable tenants and is presumably susceptible to the problems of older properties and shady neighborhoods, meaning more management effort.

Dallas, California) that say they do find 9 CAPS as they presumably know their markets much much better then I do from a distance but just observe the deals that make it to the public market (e.g.

They failed to remove all their possessions, which is the very definition of "abandoned property" and he should act accordingly.Here's the actual Texas statute:(d) A tenant is presumed to have abandoned the premises if goods, equipment, or other property, in an amount substantial enough to indicate a probable intent to abandon the premises, is being or has been removed from the premises and the removal is not within the normal course of the tenant's business.

@Dan Red in addition to the point made by @Jeremy Chaudet, consider that if you already have 10 rentals in one county, and therefore presumably know at least decently well how things work in terms of licenses, permits, taxes, utilities, public records, landlord-tenant laws... and have at least some network of contractors, lawyers, property managers, lenders... is it really worth while to try to learn all of that and create a new network in a different county and state, with its own way of doing things?  

I am presuming that you mean all in and not priced at $60,000 in need of work. 

I was surprised to learn that Maine was only 0.9 degrees Celsius colder on average over the year than my area - I presume due to proximity to the ocean and lower altitude.