It looked like a classic case of someone who accidentally turned into a landlord.

It's a classic case of really low rents because no one cared enough to raise them or someone didn't want to deal with the perceived vacancies accompanying a rent increase.

I can have a crappy cheeseburger meal at Mcdonalds for 4 dollars but go to Cheeseburger Bobby's and get something much better for 8 dollars.

Here are some great books that I highly recommend that I've read in the past year in no particular order: 1- The Magic of Thinking Big (the size of your belief = the size of your success) 2- The 4 Hour Week - Tim Ferriss (productivity and leveraging technology and 80/20 rule) 3- Eat that frog - Brian Tracy (productivity, focusing on 80/20 rule) 4- Lean Startup Method (bootstrapping and adaptive learning) 5- How to Win Friends and Influence People (classic on working with people) Enjoy.

And there are plenty of deep pocketed investors out there who will listen to NPR's upcoming This American Life piece on the slumlording professor of Mobile Home University - and instead of wrinkling up their faces in indignation, will instead salivate at a potentially discounted investment class.He appears to be an adherent of classic deep value investing - going back to Graham, and currently espoused by any number of value adherents, perhaps most cogently by Seth Klarman of Baupost Group.The classic value play is to patiently sit on the asset until the market recognizes its true value, the asset price rises (ie cap compresses) and you unlock the true value of the asset you bought so cheaply that you had the "margin of safety" as Graham put it, and Klarman titled his legendary book.But rather than wait for the market to recognize value - Rolfe is trying to teach the market.Rolfe doesn't believe in buy and hold forever - he wants to unlock value and appears to really believe his assets deserve lower cap rates than they are given.I think he is probably succeeding in helping to single handedly move the market.

Plus, that one show, Rehab Addict, where the good looking girl fixes up houses "the right way" doesn't help either, on the 2 or 3 episodes I watched she made endless references to other house flippers and how they cut all the corners and basically ruin homes, especially older, classic homes!

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@Brandon Turner posted this classic years ago: https://www.biggerpockets.com/renewsblog/2013/04/0...Ben Leybovich counters with this: https://www.biggerpockets.com/renewsblog/2015/03/0...It seems to me that these two contradict each other.

@Jd Martin Thanks for the breakdown...classically spoken very much like someone peering over the fence at neighbors house and drawing all kinds of conclusions lol.

@Kalubalu Shah This is a classic question not only for beginners.