Listen to Scott: let them look and they'll find they've already got an established area and taking the rental increase is worth not moving, renting storage, and spending resources searching for another location.

THE challenge is there are so few duplex's in the locations I want that I spend a ton of time looking and not buying.

The judgment recovery company goes through years of time to recover some of what's owed and it's a grind.You can sit on a judgment and it keeps growing and you renew it depending on state laws until one day the debtor has the ability to pay and possibly contacts you for a settlement.The 50/50 is the judgment company typically spends their own money and what is recovered over time is split 50/50.

You will spend countless hours trying to meet with the tenant!

., which can add up to be really big bucks that we investors wouldn't normally ever spend (who cares about driveways?

Absent spending all cash, you will not find a much cheaper option that a HELOC.

The 50% rule doesn't apply so you are going to have a higher cash flow because you aren't going to be spending 4200/mo in expenses!

I've had tenants sue me for 15k after spending one night in my house.

@Ken Lou $100K-$150K is a lot to spend in Indianapolis.

These institutional buyers literally have billions of dollars to spend and are recklessly bidding up to 100%, or more, of a property’s retail value.Before these institutional buyers arrived, you could realistically purchase a few properties every month at auction for 65% - 70% of retail value.