Only one current tenant is a poor housekeeper and that has nothing to do with their low income/Section 8 status.The key is, when you provide affordable housing (or any type of housing for that matter) you need to reduce your risk.

In my opinion, historic properties in almost every single deal are HORRIBLE, HORRIBLE investments, with the 2 key words in that sentence being "horrible" and "investments".

@Porchia Philpot,To make the @ work, do the following:Hold down the shift key and type @?

The data feed could be pulled using Twitter's api and dumped on a Hadoop cluster and map reduce jobs could run looking for key words.

@Amy Meza -- Your goal of getting passive income via turn-key rentals is a good one.

You could do them in a few key rooms.

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The Dr. who delivers babies does not do heart surgery and vice a versa.

Do you get keys to the property to show to potential buyers?

, it's actually by 696 and coolidge, the rental market seems good in oak park (close to downtown royal oak is key), I'm buying another one north of 696 moving in there and renting the current one that I'm living on.