You'll naturally get more up to speed as you move here and get to know the area better.

But remember I am an engineer and engineers are not typically risk takers by nature; we like hard data.Question #2 is to those of you experienced investors.

Please clarify "utilities", are you talking about water/sewer, electric, natural gas, oil, garbage/recycling, other?

It was natural for me -I started looking to buy property in college.  

These are listed for incredibly low prices, so I naturally raised an eyebrow at it not being sure if there was a catch or not.

It's not natural appreciation, it's forced appreciation.

That's for people that are bad at math.I average putting $7,000 down on $250,000 properties (0.03%) that I take over in PHX AZ, I have some carrying costs naturally, and the existing loans are in the $180,000 range.

If you bought one of those, your maintenance costs would naturally be higher and you may also have to invest a lot of money just to get the property back to good condition.

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