@Daniel Stevens Flint really has nothing positive going for it these days and Burton is rural - hence the cheap prices!

And I noticed that many of the unfurnished units were offered with a month to month lease... the kids would get cheap furniture that they didn't care about tearing up and giving away when they were done.

Just don't get cheap Craigslist contractors that are unlicensed and uninsured!

The cost to run is negligible as fuel is very cheap as well as manual labour and materials are also cheap and we grow as much of it as we can.

This doesnt mean DSCRs are inferior products; theyre great for what theyre meant for, which is relatively cheap, permanent financing for real estate without having to jump through the hoops of a Conventional loan. 

Find a cheap way to find sellers who need help, and then get busy serving them.

Just because the neighbor is a slumlord doesn't mean you should be too.Submeters are too cheap for you to have any excuse.

Then go to the Lowe's outlet in Avon and get a cheap set for less than $500 total. 

Every market is different, but in New Orleans there are two types of guests: 1)  Guests looking for a dirt cheap place to stay and don't care where it is, but will complain about the tiniest little things, when in most cases the Airbnb is much nicer than their own home.2)  Guests looking for a unique stay in a real neighborhood (how Airbnb started, until investors of faceless LLCs started to gobble up and change the fabric of these neighborhoods).

You may think it's cheap but the locals are probably horrified with prices.