This resonates for me. 

We focus around local sustainability, and you benefit from living with such knowledgeable, go getters. 

In our local markets we like to look for the downtrodden and unloved as they offer the best opportunity for forced appreciation (read: we can pull our initial capital back out once the property is stabilized).They also allow us to rehab the property to our standards for energy efficiency, sustainability and healthy environment without the cost of undoing the work of a recent renovation.In remote markets we are struggling between our nature to say - the bones are good, lets' go - and our trepidations around managing a renovation 1000 miles away with a team we do not know.  

While with large commercial property, the income of the property is at the core of the qualifying parameters, you, as the manager, have control over the success and sustainability of these revenues.  

Nevertheless, that guy probably isn't going to be in business for very long...as that doesn't seem to be a very sustainable business model.

Colleges are great economic engines (with a sustainable supply of tenants that renws).. 

So, in fact, eviction is the mechanism of most assistance to the tenant to help get her into LT sustained housing. 

A house which takes money out of your bank account to sustain itself every is not an asset.

I don't think this is right for everyone but you need to figure out what feels right for you AND resonates with your audience.  

Being able to manage your finances well enough to have savings set aside to begin and having enough to weather the storms that come with having a rental.We have built a sizable portfolio over the past 3 years and there have been times where we grew faster than we were able to sustain our growth.