I don't buy from assignors for two main reasons...liability and fictitious numbers. 

Plenty of growth still happening.I think duplex at $180,000 might be pretty tough to find, but maybe single family around the outskirts of the main metroplex.

The main one is running your business well.In my experience better than 80% of lawsuits are settled out of court. 

When rented, we lock all interior bedroom doors aside from the bedroom we are renting by the room and sync the calendar with the main house's calendar.

This has to do mainly with the timing of property tax payments for your own home (not for your investment properties) and your charitable donations.

The main data to watch is some stuff you're already watching, but probably some others you are not.

Quote from @John Williams: I recently bought a home that has an attached dwelling unit where Im planning to move in and rent out the main unit.

Many of your main TV companies won't pay a claim on a property vacant for more than 30 days.8) Renters Insurance: how are you going to get S8 tenant, who qualified for the program via a string of bad financial decisions, to pay for it?

I only ask because the main purpose of an LLC is legal protection, and if you don't have a large amount of assets to protect, say less than $1M...you may be putting the cart before the house, and it may make more sense for you to focus more on finding and closing more deals.

There are a lot of other issues, but for you as the owner, the main one is usually do you have to have the current tenants out to build (no income) on to the existing property or are you going to do a knockdown new build?