Example of a good deal: Western Digital My Passport 2TB USB 3.0 Portable Hard DriveI would suggest thumb drives, but they fail more randomly and people lose/forget about them.  

While this sounds like an adequate entry for little money down, understand that your rates will be in the double digits.

You can buy the cheap wireless set where you are replacing batteries or get what you pay for and get a good system.I recommend and use Digital Watchdog cameras and software.

Typical US strategies of rentals and/or flips are very difficult, with the high price of the properties, rental yields are very low, and renovating properties is difficult with taxes and duties unless you live in them as well...Growth though is extremely strong, we are still seeing some areas with double digit growth, so as an investor, if you have access to buy and hold property with good land content, we are seeing 8-10%+ growth each year, coupled with being leveraged, this can give excellent returnsCheersLindsay

I put enough in to be above the "no annual fee" $10k level and have about $11,600 in there now returning in the low-mid 6% range (adjusted for late notes) after coming down from double digits a few years ago.

If you get a quality system that you can configure to record on motion or all the time with high quality cameras that you will never have to change batteries on I think you will be much happier.My digital watchdog cameras cost between $250 and $500.

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.- PLACE INDUSTRIAL AIR MOVERS THAT MOVE A TREMENDOUS AMOUNT OF AIR TO SPEED THE DRYING PROCESS.4.SANITIZING AND ODOR REMOVAL (IF ANY) ARE NOT INCLUDED HERE AND WILLBE PART OF THE RESTORATION PROCESS.5.JOBSITE AREA WILL BE COMPLETELY CLEANED UP AND ALL DEBRIS REMOVEDOFF SITE.6.EMERGENCY BOARD UP SERVICE ON 7/23/11 TO PROTECT PROPERTY.7.SEND DIGITAL IMAGES OF COMPLETED WORK.CONTRACT PRICE BELOW REPRESENTS $3000.00 FOR THE DEMO WORK AND $200.00 FOR THE EMERGENCY BOARD UP.CONTRACT PRICE:$3,200.00PAYABLE AS FOLLOWS:$ 3,200.00- UPON SUBSTANTIAL COMPLETION; TO BE WIRED ON 7/25/11

Not a show stopper, but you need to consider this in your business.If it was easy to sock away $200K and produce a double digit return, a bunch of people would jump on that opportunity.

More and more renters driving demand and rental rates up.http://www.biggerpockets.com/forums/52/topics/59075-double-digit-rent-hikes-are-on-the-wayI'm normally not a big fan of investing out of one's area, but I make an exception for those in areas that just don't cash flow well.