You say you're not on the commercial side, did these opportunities never attract you or have you found the retail/rental world more of your bread and butter?

In the process of trying to sell the house to our tenant, we discovered extensive damage to the house because of the synthetic stucco material. 

To build houses out of the product.I'm just a bad handyman that makes his living salvaging what is there, but I agree with this question.What about alternative and synthetic products? 

I think 4 bed 3 bath ideally or 3 bed 2 bath for the right price is your target bread and butter for solid ratios.  

I don't own any "C" properties but I do own some "bread and butter" B or B-.

I wondered if and when RE investors would realize how their bread was buttered.

I made a lot of mistakes dealing with my college years, so ultimately I think I will focus on the lower rents of the area until I build my portfolio.I have been pretty successful so far on the rehab/buy & hold philosophy so far and while I rather deal with the better tenants, I know most of my bread and butter is lower rent/section 8 tenants.

Synthetic GICs — contracts issued by insurance companies, banks or other financial institutions (a “Synthetic GIC issuer”) that are backed by fixed income assets owned by the PLUS Fund.

I love small multifamily properties a lot - they are my bread and butter - so I think we'll get along fabulously!

Any tips on locating repair properties in bread and butter areas.