My partner and I each attended real estate school and passed our AZ tests, however we decided only one of us would hang a license, granting us both MLS access (very beneficial for comps) as well as some flexibility in terms of DNC lists.

So I drive back around and indeed there are two huge labs hanging out in the yard.

That is my biggest hang up and concern about diving in more deeply to cleveland market.

The bathroom counters look like 1970s faux marble.Picture 14 has a wall hanging that should be burned and certainly should not be used there. 

So far, I've not heard of fraudsters setting up an entire fake title company branch, so if you walk in and it feels like a title company and has a bunch of middle aged women in cubicles typing away and talking away on landline phones, with other couples and babies in strollers hanging out in the front waiting area type place, it's probably a title company.

With those rates it really doesn't make sense to hang on to a property for very long.

So I hired a college kid and he's getting the hang of it.

Keep your spirits high and keep hanging around BP.

That is a neat thing about buy and hold rentals--you don't have to hang out there all day and watch them, freeing you to research.That said, I think it is not the numbers but the interest and passion in REI that may be your largest challenge.

(bringing deals, hanging bandit signs, etc).