--What specifically do vacationers look for in the Blue Ridge?  

Chattahoochee High School, River Trail Middle School, and Dolvin Elementary are National Blue Ribbon Schools of Excellence.

Chattahoochee High School, River Trail Middle School, and Dolvin Elementary are National Blue Ribbon Schools of Excellence.

More Serious Question: Does your 2-3k include replacing the tub and surround held together with duct tape?

There are certainly issues including how many and what types of properties you can sell with these methods and to whom, but most of those are consumer protection issues.  

The property is in a good blue collar neighborhood within walking distance to an excellent elementary school. 

I did some reading up on returns, providers, prices in various neighborhoods in the country including Indiana, Chicago, Texas (Austin, SA, DFW, Houston), Raleigh, Charlotte, Atlanta, Florida (few cities), SLC, Baltimore, Cleveland.

We've purchased and read many books to include: The book on Managing Rental Properties; The book on Property Investing; The Book on Investing in Real Estate with No/Little Money Down; Rich Dad Poor Dad... and many more.

Hello BP Friends,I'm going to post a house that I currently have under contract and include all data points that I have.

Here's a link I included to my rental analysis and assumes a purchase of $64k, ARV of $85k, LTV of 80% and includes taxes, ins., management, etc..