A non-used card does not help very much, but a card that shows solid payment history does.Whenever you're trying to influence your credit, you should research how to actually do it.

Not to invest to much because in the end as long as you have the essentials a granite counter is not going to influence a renters decision to return.

Proximity and identification of higher worth asset pockets becomes difficult/volatile to predict.Political environment and societal expectations that can be borderline ideological with regards to the aboveIf the crime does not get under control (see the above thoughts on education, gini, poverty, etc) this will weigh on perceptions and asset values for years to comeOn the upside:Indy is positioned well as a logistics hub which fueled growth, and it has a reasonably diversified economy.There is access to high quality higher education in the area.I will not invest in Indy although I did look at it awhile bJim, It looks like you're letting emotions and ideologies mixed in with some anecdotal experience influence your perception of the market.

The important part to me is to consider the connection that is made when you form an LLC and how that can influence the outcome if things don't go as planned. 

The city has been in perpetual fiscal emergency since almost its inception.

Remember they were decided by the individual states so there is a lot of influence involved in where they land.

Keep in mind that I will have virtually zero sphere on influence contacts, aside from about 7 in-laws. 

Go out and connect with people, tell them what you do, have fun, work your sphere of influence, and don't get glued behind a keyboard everyday, all day. 

Confidence is 90% of influence.

Ive worked many high end rentals but they all came to me through my sphere of influence. Ive