Since you are younger, I would probably suggest that you hire a property management company to mange it for you.

Can I sit the subject but remove the "NG"

@Rich Ng "The landlord/tenant laws here are very tenant friendly."

Electrical, Plumbing, Heating, condition ExpensesMortgage- depending on listing price Insurance- Landscape Property Taxes- Vacancies- 8.3% (lower depends on area) Repairs- 9% ( Lower if new house) Cap Ex 10% or (183 if new house) Pm- 10% (when mange) Garbage- Water/sewer - Future Return Income increases- 1-2%Property increases- 1-2 % Expense Increase 1-2% Return Goal: 12% COC Return take a look more at the number... this will give you a better guideline 

Especially if you get lucky and there's not much to delead in the unit and it only costs around 2k per unit.This goes for all of you MA investors, @Rich Ng, @Marko Scretchen, @Justin Bioc, @Ryan Short, and @Paul Timmins, if you send me the address of any buildings your interested in I can check it in the database to see if it's been inspected or deleaded yet.

My name is Eddie Ng and I am enthusiastic about learning real estate investing.

If you want CA property where you can live and self-mange, that's a different story.  

Hmm; have not visited site in a  L O N G time, so I would believe it. 

I just ordered Brandon's books on rental property investing and manging rentals.

At my company we sell turnkey properties to investors, and we mange them.