I lost my license thanks to my wife hiding a renewal from me because I had a brain anuerism and a stroke about 6 years ago and when I called them they told me I had to start over in spite of what I hanve spent.  

In spite of the currency imbalance, the Canadian buying activity is picking up.

In spite of this, I have had absolutely NO formal training in tenant screening and very little in landlord law.  

Appraisals are problematic for many turnkeys, I'm sure...Still, in spite of all that, for investors who live in really expensive cities, surprisingly, the cash flow numbers can still work out for your bottom line.

He has been unable to get through and hasn't seen a dime in any kind of aid in spite of being out of work for 7 or 8 weeks at this point. 

You could buy and hold in rougher neighborhoods and learn to be hands on property manager that can handle this type of portfolio ... this is a type of leverage that an out of state, hands off investor using debt could not reproduce, in spite of what the turnkey companies my tell you :) For that matter, you could become a turn key company, and/or RE agent, and/or Property Manager.

In this case, though, there was so much deferred maintenance, in spite of what had been charged to the owner, it wasn't much of a deal.

We were happy to see them go but we didn't evict them in spite of annoying us a lot.   .   

They stayed the first night, left the next morning, and demanded a full refund, and even suggested that they be "paid for the inconvenience" in spite of having had a place to stay that first night. 

At a certain point, perhaps there is SOME genuine appreciation in value if a home is of historic significance ore desirable BECAUSE of its age... but that's arguable.This is potentially a bit misleading, and is arguably not all "appreciation" at all, because a tremendous amount of work and costs in maintenance and repair must have gone in to making the house a more desirable asset in spite or because of its age.If a house sells at a premium because it's a rarity, in amazing shape for its hundreds of years of age, this was only made possible by tremendous additional costs laid out over the years.