It is home to two casinos, Electric Boat, a Navy Sub Base, and a National Guard Base, so the potential for future renters is promising. 

I got the idea to get into real estate in 2008 took the National Exam failed and never went back.

Sometimes it's ambiguous, but even then, why should I bother with the company that has numerous unresolved lawsuits, versus another company that is virtually the same but has none.

@Russell Brazil While I haven’t figured out the growth percentage in my area, I can tell you that my town of Bayonne, NJ (where I plan to invest) is 12 miles away from New York City, there are 3 light rail stations, we have a Walmart, we have a new Costco opening this Spring and there are numerous new high end condominium complexes being built around town.

It's actually my nightmare - to have numerous properties and either be unhappy with the performance or the management, or both.

And I just tell him to send me a screenshot.Ha, my C/D tenants do not even have bank accounts.I use a numeric scoring sheet that I am happy to share with others who PM me.Prior evictions is a hard no, but the rest of it is how their overall points shakes out.

@Jo Weiss, there a few national credit unions that do HELOCs on investment properties: Pen Fed & Navy Federal.

Both from national small lenders that I had not heard of.

This article had me more alarmed than othershttps://ad-venturing.com/2019/03/26/housing-growth-hits-a-brick-wall/They have a graph/picture in the article that show National home sales down 8.2% so far in Feb. 

We usually use Appraisal Nation and their recent track record with my residential loans at least has on average been considerably less than 14-20 days.