It's also difficult because I come from a middle-class family who only know "by the book" and don't know how to take risks.

(For instance, when preparing for sale, we discovered the clay sewage pipes connecting the house to the city line in the middle of the street were falling apart and needed replacement... another $40k.

Sitting in the middle of an urban environment, it is one of the Crown Jewel buildings in the city in which we call home.

Hello all,My family has been looking to move further out of the city but the prices here in middle TN have become so expensive it has become a preventive issue for us. 

Maybe I should take a middle of the road approach... something like I set a max limit of 10 or 14 days to be late, at which point I begin the eviction process like clockwork.

They just help me submitting the offer and answer question as a middle man.

It just seems like some middle ground and higher class property would reduce out of state investing risk.My advice to the OP is find something better. 

I may appear as an unassuming flabby middle age white guy but I’m actually a golden glove boxer and a 1987 east coast kickboxing champion .

We filled out the paperwork ourselves, and we split everything down the middle.

A high school quarter mile down the road and a middle school around the corner.