It is a job and not an investment and the upfront cost and risk is huge to make a few hundred a month.  

Unless you are a professional athlete/movie star / influencer it’s hard for many to hear this but the world really doesn’t give a hoot about you.Having built hundreds of multimillion dollar homes and having worked on projects with two different professional sports teams owners - I would say less than 1% would use a land trust for anonymity and some of these people had 9 figures and several were billionaires.

I have toured many and they tend to be janky and your few hundred in cashflow will get eaten by cap/ex. 

It does not cash flow now with the increase but if I raised the rent it would cash flow a couple of hundred dollars a month (the home is paid in full), at this point I'm losing money (between the tax increase and repairs)Are you betting on appreciation in your investment strategy?

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It contains hundreds of files such as ebooks, checklists and spreadsheets for real estate investors: https://www.biggerpockets.com/filesGood luck investing.

I would not run a gas line, unless you are already out there doing work and adding the gas line only adds a couple hundred dollars to cost, at most.  

I have only kept one security deposit out of the hundreds we've taken and refunded. 

If you try to google their names, there are hundreds with the same.

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