I was raised in very blue collar, Irish Catholic family, and those days are over for me!  

That puts you in a very dangerous place...I guess these guys don't realize the risk because they've only been in the game for 5 years...I love the guys and their personality...900 hundred units is freaking phenomenal...I have seven...so I'm a minnow in a ocean full sharks...But with the loom of a market correction, I want 50 percent of my units free and clear, so when all he'll breaks loose, I can thrive and not hope to survive...

And I believe this is the age old question of to Do or Not Do (yourself)), but I can't as I'm over the ocean. 

It will still be an investment due to the blue chip location, but I’m just thinking of it as our second home.

He got a driveway for free from me which at the time was worth $50 a month and it's all worth it.Finally, I get blue collar older tenants.

The type of tenant in this area is hard working blue collar lower income.

Technology is very good at eliminating blue collar jobs, and we've seen this over the past few decades.

I'm a big fan of the city itself: blue-collar, hard-working with growth everywhere.

Blue collar?

There are newer 4bed homes under $500k and maybe even under $450k to be if you're comfortable living in the more blue collar parts of the city as well as some larger historic homes that could be easily be converted into 4 or 5 bedroom houses if you're comfortable buying a home that needs some renovation.