When you add long distances, you add an element of risk.Quote from @Alicia Tingey Geddes: Hi BP friends, My husband and I are saving up for our first property through travel work.  

But I'm always looking.There is an element of forced appreciation in the strategy as well as control through direct management.

If I only took into account the cash flow a property generates I would be missing HUGE income elements of owning investment properties.If I spent $100,000 to purchase a home then there's no way I could scale personally.Now, the author does address this 2nd point. 

If one partner sourced the deal, one partner was a GC and handled rehab and one partner handled legal aspect I could then say they all contributed funds plus an addl element to the puzzle , then I could see where pooling your skills and efforts at cost would benefit the whole and dividing profits equally would be fair and reasonable.

THE market favors these two elements.

It's hard to get rich paying down the debt, but there's certainly an element of comfort there. 

It should have the outline and the elements you'd need.

Any property should be offered fully functional, and properly equipped with at least the most basic standard elements.

There's clearly an element of productivity growth to any economy and I wouldn't rule that out.

I am sold on keeping the property, I have a great interest rate, and was just listening to the radio and it mentioned that the Fed is raising rates. even at 10% I can cash flow positive, I am just missing the additional support element.