Twenty-three years of skin in the game, and you just lost him completely as a possible source of information.At least think about what I'm saying, OK?

cottage  lake definitely  a brutal  commute to SLU at the times you mention ...close to an hour ..or more ...on most days

@Cayce Fedberg this is a question only you can answer, but I would challenge you to look in a one hour radius before abandoning your market.

Also visiting that market to walk the streets and talk to residents and proprietors (think restaurant owners, gas station attendants and Uber drivers) often times they can tell you something in 5 minutes that you could never glean from hours of research.Cheers

I got the call and drove out to see the house an hour later. 

I'm not sure they qualify as motivated if they are willing to sit on it for three weeks.

On paper the initial numbers look great but some of the properties I looked at do not allow for investors or have requirements that the owner must live in the property for a year and then only allow the unit to be rented for a maximum of three years without requesting a hardship exemption from the community association.

It also helped that the park was only about 2 1/2 hours from where I lived and I was already familiar with the area.

I literally said I'm calling the cops if they are not gone in 1 hour.

I’ve been stationed there three times over the years.