Eric,Pueblo has a lot to offer - Arkansas River Walk, Pueblo Reservoir, Arts Center, Family owned restaurants, Arkansas River activities, close to mountains, Colorado State University -Pueblo Campus, Pueblo Community College, home grown produce - known for peppers, and pumpkins, less traffic, driving distance to Colorado Springs and Denver.  

Now applying this to Philadelphia, you can easily go into areas of North Philadelphia or areas of SW Philadelphia just as examples and find properties that pencil as BRRRR's as easily as it is to pick produce out at a grocery store.

Cash flow purchases usually produce more headaches than cash, have no exit strategy and are a poor investment strategy.I make WAY more money off of debt paydown and appreciation than I ever have from cash flow. 

Since then, the property manager hasn't been able to produce anything to show that the heating was on—though they repeatedly say it was.

When your rental produces a loss in excess of income (AGI) you have a passive loss.

We were able to produce a high ROI!

Any development project undertook by such company who has a minimum of 10% staffing of such persons, can receive a "tax credit" on any net housing producing or redeveloping projects. 

A municipality will not accept a DIY flashy app-produced drawing in its raw form.

What type of returns do they produce, esp. in a medium-interest-rate environment?

It produces useful reports for various properties.Cons:   They over promise and under perform on virtually everything.