After rent in the area: $800Taxes: $2,900Mortgage: Healthy Neighborhood Renovation Loan  $96,000 + $10,000 (renovation) .

Right now, looks pretty healthy,  so banks  will  continue to lend.In many expensive markets, the real estate market is already "soft." 

The important factors are to buy in markets that are strong economically, and healthy in terms of its housing (refer to my 2013 Housing Market Forecast as a primer).

When you want to start looking at multi-family let me know as I have some great leads with healthy ROI and NOI for hold or repositioning.

The food that I buy for my foreign student only came to about $100 a month leaving me a healthy profit.

If seller in nursing home is married, then you can sell home and use medicaid complaint annuity to move all assets over to the healthy spouse.

@J PatKeep a healthy safety net (cash), screen tenants well, be firm (letting that late payment slide is a no go, it is in your contract), don’t do business with family or friends, document your business so you aren’t making stuff up on the fly.

@Saul BallaineLet look at the dataPopulation and home values are rather stagnant, which is neither good nor badRents have trended upwards over the past decade Total vacancy is at a healthy 7%As for returns, with an average rent to price ratio of 0.54% I believe you will be able to find a cash flowing propertyAll in all Marshalltown, Iowa seems like a decent area based on the data.

There will be some short-term pain but it will be overall healthy for the market. 

We are making an effort to be consistent with habits like reading, eating healthy, proactively plan the week, write down daily and weekly goals, etc.