The price to rent ratio is an important thing to look at when evaluating an area and it sounds as if it doesn't quite produce a good deal in your area.

A quicker way to determine how to create the sales funnel is to hire a free lance marketer, specializing in lead generation for real estate agents, allow him access to your data, and have him produce the sales funnel process for you.  

If you're 54 and say, you'd like to retire at 65 with a healthy real estate portfolio, I would recommend working to acquire ten doors (3-5 small multifamily properties would be my favorite) by age 60.  

If most are going for Comps in the last X months, and a few are going for Income (but Income produces a lower value than comps = distressed or etc...)

Connect with top real estate producers in the zip code and notify them about your listing and see if you van make a deal.

If you do not believe April was healthy snapshot for housing market activity then simply adjust the time frame comparisons.

He has his highest producing unit in Woodfin and is concerned for sure; my concern is if this idea spreads as we have a property in Fletcher, which is south of Asheville.  

Still can find some solid SFR's in Mount Healthy, but the school district is not good either.

We bought it with 5% down so the return was healthy.

For example if you lived on the same street for 30 years you probably have a huge advantage over some of the top producing agents, they may have time on task of being a realtor but in many ways I am sure you are the expert of that street.