Far more than most real estate acitivies and much quicker think about it.. you sell the same info over and over and get paid instantly you have no roofs to fix no tenants to manage etc etc.. you do have reputation management of course.

Welcome to the real estate investment game!

I could tell you to invest in Milwaukee, you can still find cash flow positive duplexes here in good neighborhoods around 350k and we have had very consistent 8% appreciation over the last years.

You just have to make it more exciting than the competition.

Appears the guests may have left the faucet "on" when the pipes were frozen and when no water came out, forgot to turn it "off".What may have caused the overflow of the sink is maybe the drain lines were also frozen?

Evictions are very easy in Canton but can be trickier in Akron, especially over the past year.  

The balanced owed on the property is about 97K. 

Yes, last year and that’s all over with now.

Maybe there's an angle for seller financing or some other creative approach to get the seller the total return they want over time, but it's hard to say without actual facts and data.

@James Landsford That punch list is a lot of work that won't necessarily help with you increasing rents over time.