Suggest you go the electric route--less or  no maintenance costs, and when repair is needed, inexpensive compared to most gas fired boilers or furnaces.I would also have a small natural gas wall space heater installed somewhere on the main living floor (not in bedrooms) just in case of power outage and / or for supplemental heating.  

I’m new to investing and my thought process was that I can find relatively inexpensive properties at auction.

Very good service and very inexpensive estimate their services.

Small claims court is inexpensive and very simple.

Then we framed out a feature wall and installed a fairly inexpensive electric fireplace.

By the time you buy something inexpensive and then rehab it and then put Section 8 tenants in it, you will have probably spent the same,....if not more money than if you would have simply did what i did, which is............Find a property that is listed for sale that already has Section 8 tenants in it and then buy it. 

So $22,800 in annual rental income and $5k in expenses, for $17,800 annual profit.

For cabinets you can spend a fortune or you can get pretty inexpensive at Lowe's.

There are a lot of agents who wouldn't even touch a property so inexpensive. 

Properties are relatively inexpensive in some of these rural towns but I worry about what type of rent could be collected in these locations.Does anyone have any suggestions about this, or what they would recommend?