Quote from @V.G Jason: Quote from @Jay Hinrichs: The mindset of cash flow is everything and appreciation is just luck or gambling or whatever these folks say is one of the worst mindsets I see on BP.

I'd love to buy up some land in the Christmas or Santiago Mountains, but I love hunting for and photographing rare snakes so that's sort of a niche use haha.The Chihuahuan desert and western mountains of Texas are no joke, it is some of the most remote, unpopulated, water-starved, but breathtakingly beautiful country in the entire US.Just FYI it's not that west Texans dislike solar or wind farms... we love money!

I know it may sound as a BIAS from my side but I think this should NOT be legal to put covenant, see my logic here a builder build a whole community and one part of it is rentals the rest is single family, they put covenants and restrict the market to rent by room just to ensure they can rent their rentals that is a sort of monopolistic behavior and should not be legal.

I didn't even consider the shorter lease strategy as a sort of trial run.

It's the sort of market that passes every metric or test when you start doing research, though. 

The worst thing you can do is inherit a bad tenant and then you'll have to go through the eviction process. 

November through February is the worst time to rent in most of the country.

That is not luck, that is not random, that is suicide.So conclusion,  the people you are trying to skip trace (and pay money for to skip trace) are not just "a bad " audience.They are the worst possible audience.

Most "cash buyers" actually use some sort of financing. 

Are the properties empty or worst case on MTM leases you can end in 30 days?