There is an art to landlording.First, is the property in the same town where you live, Hartford, Connecticut?

Don't even see it because they were hit so hard and haven't noticed the jobs, downtown building, Big events, airport restoration and modernization, occupancy rates, sports teams building state of they art stadiums etc.  

@Art AllenHere are zoomed out pictures of the backview and frontview 

Bring capital go 50/50 with someone or just act as a private lender and get 10% return for a bit until you utilize the art of using OPM.

Though, I love Donald Trump's book "The Art of the Deal."  

All you can do is all you can do, and all you can do is enough" - Art Williams

FYI-back in 7th grade I brought a bag of rubber bands into art class and kept shooting the new kid in the head with them.

Like Brian stated above, there is so much diversity in the art of RE investing/Trading.

In the Army we got "additional duties", I got stuck teaching close combat to Warrant Officer Canidates in flight school, the Army way, a combination of several arts and not a sport, but I was never in a formal school.

Ok for those of you who have read my posts I am a rookie land lordand I put some pretty fancy doo dads in my rentals they are c rentals neighborhoods that are a little sketchy There are bars on all the windows I think I am using that rating correctly.but I have a hypothesis which is born from an experience while living in new york during the 80'smore on that laterI put the big pull faucets with the pull out sprayer i opted for bead board back splashes because they were cheaper I almost went with glass but ran out of moneyI did floating vanities in the bathroom with water fall faucetsand I put down laminate floors and I even did an accent wall the prospective tenants liked it all but what froze them in their tracks was the shower heada relatively inexpensive square glass rain shower headwith the delta armhttp://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003064FXY/that froze them dead they were so anxious to get the apartment the husband started jumping around and ran and picked up an empty krispy kreme box from the living room and wrote their email adresss on itthere is no doubt that the other renos made an impact but this shower head for the money is going to go in all my rentalsthe pure allure of it for what it costs pays huge dividendsnow on to my hypothesisWhile growing up in New york I noticed that in the middle of some of the worse neighborhoods were people who had apartments with the african art the smell of sandle wood or some exotic insence paintings on the wall and book shelves and some nice potterythere were bars on the windows and under the smooth jazz music you can hear the sounds of city life outside these folks had created an oasis within their apartmentsI believe that you can find these sorts of people simply by understanding who they are which doesent take much just start talking about life and things goals and aspirations principles of living and dichotomies and the truly intelligent grounded caring folks will emerge in your mind.people who may come from the ghetto but are somewhat elevated from that existencewhether through education or a realization that it goes no where a been there done that mentality and a desire for more from their lives.artists, educators, construction workers, part time poets full time city workerswhatever.