Section 8 can be fine, but be prepared for a little additional oversight as far as someone coming to inspect the unit and require some changes to GFci outlets and smoke alarms etc. etc. beyond that, it’s nice to have guaranteed income.

I never had any "fat slobs" smoking cigars working for me; I had professional home inspectors that were required to be licensed and keep up their continuing ed.

Great price for new pannel, breakers, rewire, GFI and hard wired smoke detectors to current code.

I have found most owners understand bad things happen, they just don't want to be in the dark.

But to start with, no matter who tells you what, there is always an element of groping in the dark to buying your first investment property.

When was the last time that the air filters, smoke detectors, carbon monoxide detectors replaced?

When was the last time that the air filters, smoke detectors, carbon monoxide detectors replaced?

@Stephen David Smith Jr.This is a solid point we drove by a 240k duplex in Nokomis and there were about 8 guys playing basketball in the driveway and smoking enough weed we could smell it with the windows up in our van lol.

Recently I had a tenants stove pop and make black smoke over the weekend.

Bastrop is smoking hot and about 40k an acre because of Elon Musk and other tech moving east of Austin.