Pure gold, J.I appreciate your original posts and your follow-ups.As you said, due diligence is key.

All the moderators and contributors here are purely here based on their desire to give back...they are all unpaid.As for how many people I've helped, based on the feedback I've gotten, the number is likely in the hundreds or thousands. 

Ok for those of you who have read my posts I am a rookie land lordand I put some pretty fancy doo dads in my rentals they are c rentals neighborhoods that are a little sketchy There are bars on all the windows I think I am using that rating correctly.but I have a hypothesis which is born from an experience while living in new york during the 80'smore on that laterI put the big pull faucets with the pull out sprayer i opted for bead board back splashes because they were cheaper I almost went with glass but ran out of moneyI did floating vanities in the bathroom with water fall faucetsand I put down laminate floors and I even did an accent wall the prospective tenants liked it all but what froze them in their tracks was the shower heada relatively inexpensive square glass rain shower headwith the delta armhttp://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003064FXY/that froze them dead they were so anxious to get the apartment the husband started jumping around and ran and picked up an empty krispy kreme box from the living room and wrote their email adresss on itthere is no doubt that the other renos made an impact but this shower head for the money is going to go in all my rentalsthe pure allure of it for what it costs pays huge dividendsnow on to my hypothesisWhile growing up in New york I noticed that in the middle of some of the worse neighborhoods were people who had apartments with the african art the smell of sandle wood or some exotic insence paintings on the wall and book shelves and some nice potterythere were bars on the windows and under the smooth jazz music you can hear the sounds of city life outside these folks had created an oasis within their apartmentsI believe that you can find these sorts of people simply by understanding who they are which doesent take much just start talking about life and things goals and aspirations principles of living and dichotomies and the truly intelligent grounded caring folks will emerge in your mind.people who may come from the ghetto but are somewhat elevated from that existencewhether through education or a realization that it goes no where a been there done that mentality and a desire for more from their lives.artists, educators, construction workers, part time poets full time city workerswhatever.

But if they can't understand something that is not a pure vanilla account, then I'm better off with a bank.I need to establish a relationship with a regular bank locally anyway.

By pure coincidence the home owner showed up just as she was leaving  in her car In the rear view mirror she  saw a car pulling up and she made a circle and came back to the house as I was talking to the homeowner.

Even if it's a purely cosmetic reno, demo can add at least a few hundred, if not several hundred, to the job by the time you fill up a dumpster or three.

Some markets are pure appreciation, some CF and some both.

How it is currently rented, with the one side vacant, it's at -$390 a month purely from the mortgage.

Here's a bit of the transcript:"Okay, looking at the analytics and the pure metrics of the real estate market in Metro Phoenix.”

Im mainly looking at the San Juan area (Old San Juan, Isla Verde etc) because im assuming, if going for pure AirBnb, these areas will attract the most rentals.Btw so glad to see this thread as Ive been looking for quite some time now for some more information and experiences   CheersPeter