The easier it is for someone to click on something, the less likely they are to be a serious customer.

With such low rental yields, the return on investment (ROI) and cash-on-cash (CoC) return are negative when factoring in mortgage payments only, not including any other factors.In this market, it seems almost impossible to make a profit using traditional rental property investing strategies.

From October to late November the mountain is closed.

I feel like there will be lots of people that are ready to get our of their home offices!

That said, expect a 24-48-hour response time to requests/negotiations. 

The reason being they did not want to be caught in a lease and have to deal with potential lease issues down the road.

We basically want property to generate some cash flow and long term appreciation.

Purchase price: $160,000 Cash invested: $30,000 Took this home from bad to glam in 1.5 months for a healthy profit.

My first big leap was using a VA loan to pick up a foreclosure property – no money down, which was a game-changer for me! 

The marketing ROI to East Nashville has gone down to near zero for me so I stopped looking for deals in that area and focused on smaller zip codes.