Anyway, I learned quite a bit by their failure at implementing their plan.Our property is in a blue-collar neighborhood, about 50/50 in regards to owners and renters.

I know morris county has very low taxs (for NJ), but if you do a rough estimate using the 50% rule which means that in the long term expenses will be about 50% of gross income from a property, then you subtract your debt service from that you need to be making about $200 per unit to make it worth the hassle of ownership.You can also look into putting some money into a bigger deal or Syndication on a larger commercial space which you might find some better metrics then residential properties in blue ribbon school districts in North Jersey.

Most of our buyers are blue collar guys in various trades, not just oil workers. 

Yes I would offer 2% to buyer agent, in this market (Pacific NW) agents don't have to do to much work and then we have Blue Match, Homie and Faira competeing, oh yes and now Zillow ibuyer.

Your timing is perfect as there is a local meetup in Denver tonight at the Blue Moon Brewery in Rino.  

Sarah,Contact Blue Mountain in Colorado Springs, great team

I played competitive paintball for my college (Go Blue!) 

About 2 years ago I drove by this horribly ugly blue house that I could barely see from the road.

Hi Michael,The Zillow street view looks rough.Some things to think about:[1] Lack of off street parking (possibly add parking on garbage can side).[2] No real storage space (possibly add locked storage sheds for each unit on grassed over driveway side.[3] Non matching front doors, possibly match front doors, and not paint them blue red, black or pink--aka gang colors.[4] Possibly add black shutters to front windows.[5] Your insurance is ok with 3 steps with no handrails (???)

I'm in Michigan and I focus mostly on blue collar suburbs in entry level type houses.