I hope to potentially partner with someone seeking a safe and profitable market opportunity utilizing my local presence and renovation skills.

More just curious for my own goal setting what is reasonable/safe.

Hi Kaz, Tenants still have rights in these states and landlords must always fulfill their obligation to provide safe housing, but these top 8 states give landlords more tools to use to rectify problematic tenant relationships.

I'm shooting for $1200Cordova is a safe market as well.

We're not Good Samaritans in fixing up the property, but having a fixed up property next to yours is a lot better than having a run down vacant nasty, un-safe place next door.  

I definitely want to feel safe, but obviously can't afford houses in fancy neighborhoods.

If your following the laws and maintaining the properties your fairly safe to begin with.

There's enough demand right now that the seller would rather have you cancel and the next person will come along this weekend and probably not care about asbestos.It's safe to assume that if a house was built between the 1930's and the 70's some kind of asbestos-containing product was used in the construction.Also keep in mind that if you get it tested and there is asbestos (i.e. you know about), you must disclose that fact when you sell it down the road. 

I'm pretty confident that my repairs number is a little higher than necessary but I wanted to be safe.

While you might not be able to do a cash out refi early on, it will build equity over time and you can also get cash flow to safe up for the next deal.