The areas are most often VERY small segments (a couple street blocks) I then buy as many cheap & charming properties as possible in that very small area, rehab them and rent them.

I guess some might argue with this, but there is an overpriced rental house three blocks from mine that has been sitting on the market trying to get rented for at least 4 months now, so I decided being aggressive on the price and being able to be choosy about tenants was preferable to having this situation go on forever.

There might be some other sites where such tactics might accepted, but this one is full of investors who have been around the block a couple times and such nonsense just won't fly.

In essence, the property is a government entity owned commercial building, off the interstate 10 gateway (making it highly visible), blocks from downtown El Paso.

Since I made this post I got a couple emails from local RE agents and the houses that have sold on the block in the last year seem to average $48-49 a sqft.

All of my properties are within the same two blocks, and are one block from office.

That neighbor can probably and effectively block any future building on that vacant lot by claiming the easement for the purpose of ingress and egress to his property.

Cheaper, and based on looking at existing information, like any fences or other indicators of boundaries.Then, build a fence a blocks off access to property three.

(if they follow through they'll buy the house for about $10K more than I could've sold it for...and NOTHING on my block was selling)I have a question about bandit signs I'm going to post in the bandit signs topic.

I can forsee major issues should one tenant be blocked in with the other tenants vehicle behind them.I could potentially turn the small backyard into a parking lot, or limit parking to only one tenant who would pay slightly more rent.Suggestions and experience?