My primary goal is to increase my monthly income so that I have more financial freedom to expand my small business. 

So we found a property that had great potential for a value add option by building out the attic and adding 2 bedrooms, a bathroom/laundry room and a loft that would increase the square footage by 800 square feet.

Due to the time value of money accelerated payments increase your yield as an investor (but more on that in a future deal).Let’s talk Note Investing!

Rents will increase at 2-3% per year, so you will keep subsidizing it less and less as you gain equity.

I'm looking to increase my marketing efforts immediately by mailing 8,000-10,000 postcards/month, but don't want to waste money and time targeting the wrong lists.

Still cheaper than NY and NJ for sure but the rent rates have not increased as fast as the taxes!

But the benefit of the increased risk may be that t keeps away other more risk averse investors.

Once I became established in rentals I diversified to increase my profits and limit my risks.

I read in a recent article posted by @andrew Syrios titled 13 Proactive Ways to Increase Rent & Add Value to Your Rental Property.

I've been researching for about a year and have been trying to find the best way to get started, I recently spoke with an investor that has a couple vacant houses that he leaves just sitting because he doesn't want to increase his income into the next tax bracket.