A B class rental here is probably different than a B class rental in your area as is the profile of the tenant that occupies it.

Hi @Justin Snead, I would say just make sure wherever you take the pre-licensing class is IDFPR approved. 

I live here in Columbus, and it's very attainable to house hack a duplex for $400,000-$600,000 in an A-class neighborhood and gross $3,500-$5,000 in rent, which is why I asked.  

Cheap houses in lower class neighborhoods will get you cash flow with a lot of headache.

Still assessing if it was the property itself or the property class.

How do you know if a neighborhood is C class as an out of state investor? 

The City of Detroit is block-by-block in many Class B & C areas.In our opinion, zip codes cover too large an area.We use Detroit Neighborhoods, which are much smaller than zip codes.

1) They naively expected Class A results from the Class B/C/D property they bought.2) They didn't do enough market research to even know they bought a Class B/C/D property.3) They didn't do enough due diligence on the members of their team: agent, PMC, inspector, etc.

I also agree, that income is not a protected class.

Meaning, a Class C Neighborhood will have majority of Class C properties, but there will still be some Class B and some Class D.