But BP doesn't deter that, a lot of the ads push this stuff.

The prospects for appreciation are limited (probably below the inflation rate), your tenant pool sucks to manage from out of state, your risk is high because you don't know what the heck you're doing - none of us did on the first go; that's not personal - and your flippant verbiage is treating this more like trading stocks than buying property. 

I would also like the "scary man" to be available to go with me when meeting prospective tenants, or having to personally interact with tenants...obviously this should not happen very often  (Don't want to be a lone female dealing with strangers)  However the manger would have very little to do a so much can be managed on the turbo tenant. 

Having a tenant will limit the usage for many prospects and likely make it difficult to schedule showings. 

I'm Alex Granados and I'm a prospective real estate investor in the Portland/Salem OR area. 

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I’m helping a realtor with an open house and a prospective buyer came by because the house was on Roam, but the homeowner never had a mortgage on this house.

But land within 10 minutes of downtown Austin is where the real value lies, so the prospect of getting such a large plot for cheap is triggering all these "what-ifs".

A prospective tenant asked me if I'm OK with TRA.

Seems very restrictive and would deter a lot of guests.