First of all the final sentence  should be read as  - Why you would conjecture that a landlord who doesn't place significant weight on a credit score then becomes solely reliant on a tenants word defeats me. 

It's the weight of the responsibility you would have for the property.

But all materials have to be flown in or brought by boat which increases everything's cost by $1-$2/lb. when you think of the weight of even a small bed and breakfast and add $2 /lb you are easily tripling the cost of building.

(Jumped from 1 to 10 since the following is not done in order just a weighting system that was used as filters:US News' Ranking of Univ > 300Univ Population > 10k (with minor exceptions)Cities Population > 40kMost recent Population change of City > 0% (cash flow mainly like I said, but combined with following could lead to incr apprec)City density (peeps / sq mi) > 1,000Rental Vacancy Rate < 6% (must use PM so high turnover is not super ideal) (yes, I know, base was college area... grrr....)Median property value < $210 K (risk mitigation)Median Rent (used with above for rough cash flow ranking)Cash Flow Indicator ( 1 - Rental Vacancy Rate) * Median Rent / Median Propert Value > (Iteratively throw away cities on bottom 50% of list.)Tax / Legal Friendliness of StateThen take the top 7 from above and review the micro investing climate (actual cash flow, Cash on Cash, etc) of turn keys.

I included utilities and a monthly cleaning service to make it an attractive listing (and hopefully lessen maintenance costs by keeping the living areas/bathrooms clean).Lessons Learned:1. 

Not a very good chance you could wholesale them, and you'd just lessen their chances of getting the short sales done.

I will definitely keep it as a rental after weighting everyone's comments.

One the first lessens though is recognizing and separating the hype from the real lessons.

I’ve found out from times past that personal recommendations can carry a lot of weight.

The foreign investments have started to lessen and the price of real estate has certainly began to feel the effect.