No worries, the listing and your agency relationship are with the Broker, not the individual agent.

I’ve found individual properties which *could* work in each of these cities, but don’t understand how to ultimately pick a market and get going.

Individualization of mails or postcards always works.

There are plenty different owners some individuals and some LLCs in that area.

Your numbers indicate it will take you 11 years of savings in that department to save for a new furnace.

The homepath website seems to indicate 5% down applies to occupants and investors..

After a refi your interest exp on taxes, individually, is limited to your initial loan amount amortized/basis, in an LLC the funds need to be reinvested for a business purpose or held in the LLC to be a valid expense.

In the future, you couldI think you should explain to the original tenant that you have a duty to protect the neighborhood you invest in, as well as yourself, and so background checks must be completed on both individuals in order for them to live there; which includes the submission of a completed application and application fee.

Many of these could have been prevented if the individual would have spent a few hundred (sometimes more) dollars on an attorney with KNOWLEDGE OF THE AREA.

There are good comps to indicate $6,600/mo rent potential, after repair work.