Lower Repair CostsHiring licensed contractors for minor fixes can be costly.

I went to every one of the 65 hearings myself and got 61 properties lower and 4 remaining the same. 

For an absentee landlord, it would seem that a condo could have less maintenance headaches than a SFH and lower risk in general. 

Have you lowered the price at all?

Our median price home is much lower than Austin.

I can list a property for 120,000, get no offers, so they push me to lower it and lower it until the price is 100k, and then it sells for 97k - they will call that 97% of list price (even though it is 80% of original list price). 

Hopefully it'll be lower, but that where's my urban developers in a few other markets are seeing their numbers come in.

that we’ve learned in our 24 years, managing almost 700 doors across the Metro Detroit area, including almost 100 S8 leases:Class A Properties:Cashflow vs Appreciation: Typically, 3-5 years for positive cashflow, but you get highest relative rent & value appreciation.Vacancy Est: Historically 10%, 5% the more recent norm.Tenant Pool: Majority will have FICO scores of 680+ (roughly 5% probability of default), zero evictions in last 7 years.Class B Properties:Cashflow vs Appreciation: Typically, decent amount of relative rent & value appreciation.Vacancy Est: Historically 10%, 5% should be applied only if proper research done to support.Tenant Pool: Majority will have FICO scores of 620-680 (around 10% probability of default), some blemishes, but should have no evictions in last 5 yearsClass C Properties:Cashflow vs Appreciation: Typically, high cashflow and at the lower end of relative rent & value appreciation.

LTRs with long term conventional financing and standard management aren't really cash flowing anywhere right now. sure, there are lower cost markets that look better on paper, but there are costs associated with those supposedly cheap markets as well - deferred maintenance, more challenging tenant base, higher cost turnovers as a percentage of the rent.2. i wouldn't pick a random market thousands of miles away based solely on statistics or numbers. 

Secondary markets like Greensboro, Winston, and Fayetteville will likely still be under the 1% rule, but our property taxes are lower than most northern states so the CoC (which is what you should be as/more concerned about) return will be favorable.