How often were you observing the property to know about it? 

Some observations as a hood investor.

You never know where you can find inspiration for the future without guessing about the look.Hi JenThat is really some good observation that you carried out :)I hope to get some inspiration from you.Thanks a lot for quoting on my article

I'm not a credit score expert, but a few observations...This article appears to be a year old (2010 vs. 2011), unless the author still hasn't adjusted to the new year.Any article from ezinearticles.com needs to be taken for what it is, which is a marketing tool to get people to click their links at the bottom.My understanding is that your credit score from the Big 3 is not the same as a FICO, which is a score calculated by Fair Isaacon (sp?)

Building your brand, being excellent at stuff, is very expensive not to do because it's related to tenant happiness, longevity and referrals.In my observation, when people talk about living or not living in the places they rent out, they are touching somehow on this concept: that the area, house, schools, whatever, match their (undefined?)

I return to the initial observation: renters don't have much money.

As a Realtor(R) and PM, I have observed many licensees that were poor PMs.

observative yes.

Observe, execute, adjust and repeat. 

One observation - not so much within the RE or BP community, but within the FI community, there seems to be this assumption that if you have to work at all, whether full time or part time, W2 or 1099, you've failed somehow.