He will also have to walk you through to get repair estimates and he should be able to let you know what markets are the sweet spots.Are you planning on Flipping in Meriden I see alot of investors chasing.

If you find the right agent, he or she may be able to help you find the sweet spot in your market.

Home sweet home for the likes of myself, @Derek Martin @Brie Schmidt and a good few others here too.  

Now this isn't some sweet hug each other hippy thought process.  

@George Wines IMO it needs to at least be close to the 1% rule (sum of the monthly rents is around 1% of the purchase price.

And anything with grad students or employees at OSU must be pretty sweet I am thinking.

I know I'm not suppose to put my website or my email anywhere on the letter, I'd have to make it short and sweet.

I agree that there is a sweet spot between fixer upper and cosmetic upgrades.

She was my first eviction, and it was a sweet, glorious day watching the sheriff pack up her belongings...Bottom line is you can do all the tenant screening you want, sometimes the selection process is luck of the draw and that guaranteed payment is nice...

More than likely most of the homes that come through the MLS aren't going to be fantastic awesome sweet deals but some of them may be close to being good deals and you may want to consider them but then once you actually get to check out the house and see that it needs $X amount of work then the deal won't be a great deal and you've gotten a good look at a couple of houses and you're practicing already!