A lot of flippers and turnkey companies taking advantage of "hyped up investors" and selling them Class C & D rentals without telling them the whole story.Not sure there's anything wrong with the Memphis market, but did hear Nashville is slowing.Detroit is still growing and we've helped a lot of investors with "BRRR Turnkeys":1) We help source a "fixer-upper", but don't really care who you buy it with2) We handle the renovations, providing bids & video completion updates3) We find a tenant4) We manage the property It's cheaper than buying a Retail Turnkey AND you know exactly what rehab was done and the quality of all the work that gets hidden behind drywall:)DM us if we can help with anything else.

It's essential to screen your tenants thoroughly.

So true, unfortunately the fed has essentially kicked the can down the road, repeating volkers mistakes in the 70's.

It's essential to present your own lease agreement.

Find Brandon's videos on YouTube for the "four square" method of analyzing homes and practice.

Also do a video when its done.

Here's how it works:If their deposit is $1,500, they can either choose to pay the SD in full or elect to take out what is essentially a loan with Rhino Insurance and only pay $25 per month ($20 goes to Rhino and the remaining $5 goes to the PM company) toward their $1,500 SD.

Part of my issue was not having a reasonably priced handyman ahead of time and eventually overpaying to just get it done and also inexperience as a manager.With that said, you essentially have two options: very cheap properties in less good areas (you're looking at 100k or less--which you might have trouble getting a good lender for)  or trying to do some sort of house hack (e.g. live in flip, live in rent by the room, multifamily) where you budget will be closer to 200k-300k.Personally, I would not look at real estate until you are maxing out your 401k and IRA, but lots of folks have done significantly better with real estate than stocks and would think I'm crazy for suggesting this.

The process and management will take you 1-5 youtube videos to learn about. 

An agent sent me a video tape of a fourplex in this area that made it seem pretty good.