If you have a strong historical capital and rent appreciation rate it might make sense to get into this market and wait for natural rent increases and appreciation to take hold and make for better investments if you wanted to stay local.You could also consider looking for turn-key investments in another city (Indy, Memphis, etc) where the returns could be much better - but the risk without having the ability to drive by the properties could be greater.

Some landlords actually offer "cash for keys" to just get a person to move out so they can avoid any further headaches.

Serge the key with Canadian buyers or any out of country is you have more hurdles to go through.Foreign investors have a tough time getting financing on deal even with 50% down.

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