Every potential buyer I spoke with got my verbal list of disclosures to do their own due diligence, followed by a “yeah.. it probably needs to be knocked down”, and any information that the seller relayed to me.The property was posted on Craigslist and Facebook Marketplace for $9,000 with pictures and a detailed description based on my walkthrough and tax records.

Especially for someone like me who lives in a pro tenant severely landlord and Rei unfriendly geographic area.

San Diego is geographically constrained.  

Personally, I'm a big fan of Pittsburgh and the surrounding areas culturally/architecturally/geographically, but know what your getting into.

How big of a geographical area did you focus on? 

not a scheme to buy and sell SFR's  No one puts an add in the craigs list and says I have a contract period.. there is always a description of the home and once you do that your selling real estate.. not sure why folks don't understand that other than they just don't want to.. another of my clients here in Oregon and we do 3 to 5 million a year in business together he finds them I put up the money .. but same thing he put a sign in a yard got turned in.. and state wrung him up.. he was in contract and wanted to assign it.. neighbor turned him in...

If you try to include it in your rent and charge higher rent your problem is that people searching for rentals don't read the description that says your electric bill will be low if the price is too high to start with, they just don't they move on to the next property.

If you know the market you can probably define what people consider a neighborhood or geographic region that has similar characteristics.

The company I called was called had powerwashing in the name... however when I read their descriptions, the roof is called soft washing and they even go on to say do not power wash.

I come from a background where exceedingly detailed release schedule descriptions were used to identify progress payments through a project in an ebb and flow manner.