I'm pretty handy so I convinced her to let me make all the repairs it needed after the FHA inspection to sweeten the pot on both ends of the deal (scraping paint and repainting is pretty easy) . 

Rental income is based on today's local going rate and you need to establish that bench mark before you make an offer.

The homeowners literally abandoned the home and left so many things from the couch, pots & pans, canned foods, clothing, and a litterbox full of poop.  

Karen Harris - after 50 or so responses I might as well throw my 50 cents in the pot - Take away the big risk.

We left them a pot of coffee, and fresh baked cookies which were still warm when they got there.

Chloe Eudaly needs to use her time on fixing the broken bridges getting ready for the BIG ONE and filling pot holes all over PDX.

another topic, Has any one every used bus stop-bench ads?

so work force more diverse.. but that also leads to very moderate gains in values and values because there are so many rentals are really related to what one will pay for a given cash flow and the 1% rule seems to be the bench mark for OOS investors to take the leap to other markets.. unlike the west coast were our locals are happy at the .05% rule... there is no way they are going to Memphis or Cleveland or any other mid west market for the 05% rule.. why would they with no real value growth there are better ways and safer ways to invest.So where does the investment real estate inventory come from.1. burnt out landlord syndrome there are areas of the city that many won't work in @Chris Clothier commented on those neighborhoods in a thread earlier this week. 

im still buying but Im using a little heavier down payments in order to keep loan payments down a bit, and being SUPER cautious  one of the reasons I think its going so strong is the pot laws. 

I also saw on Facebook that their son was into pot and they owned a dog that they didn't disclose on the application.I denied them quickly and they tried to lie their way out of it.