I moved here from Portland OR to start house hacking then moved on to purchase rentals and grew my rental portfolio to over seven figures.

I would say most come from Apartments.com and Zillow—hard to say exactly over the years, but probably 45/45 with those sites, and 10 from FB Marketplace. 

@Eric Peters my brother and sister in law have been agents for over 30 years and are located in Venice.

If you spend $680k + $70k = $750k, you likely need rent of about $7500/month to be cash neutral.  

A door lock doesn't function, four cracked windows, a broken door handle...those sound like issues the PM should have found during the inspection.When you get a lot of repair requests from a new tenant and they seem to be legit, I would recommend they spend a week or two getting settled, write down all the issues they come across, then send your contractor to handle everything at once.

So while every market is different and $4500/mo in rent is nice, are you spending a lot of money to have a less valuable property, versus spending that same $400k (or less) to do a nice renovation and keep it single family home and sell it or rent it out as a nice single family? 

There are over 20 active CPAs here in Biggerpockets assisting RE investors with their tax planning.

And it's written under the pseudonym of Sean Cook by Paul Kaseburg.Paul’s sat on both sides of the table on over $2 billion of real estate deals.

@Srini Malempati, there are many Columbus based realtors here, like @Remington Lyman, that can provide more specific details of North Linden.That being said, I have had many long term tenants in my properties over the years.  

Alright, so over the course of a year, nearly $800,000 was spent acquiring, rehabbing, and placing tenants.