Increasing vacancy often means keeping rents low and offering concessions.And while you will sometimes see "merchant builder" developers self manage with their lean team to just get a deal ready to sell, this deal is managed by Willow Bridge, who manages 180,000 units.  

The market has now experienced six consecutive monthly declines in asking rent, for a cumulative total of 1.2%.

4 units are great because they give you the option to rent some units out while you're working on fixing the other ones up and there is a lot of rental demand in Cleveland and surrounding neighborhoods right now, so it's a great time to get in the market!  

The location definitely was obvious, at least to me.I’ve hosted monthly meetups in my area of Mesa, Arizona for around 7 years now and the majority of people that attended came from BiggerPockets.

Purchase price: $171,000 Cash invested: $34,000 Bought a 2 unit as a househack, living in the upper and renting out the lower unit.

This will allow you to rent out the other units and offset some of the housing expenses you carry. 

Not exactly the same area, but there are a lot of parallels to owning and managing in both locations.

The location, school district, and lack of availible single fammily homes on the market.

Begin by setting up online tools for rent collection, maintenance requests, and communication with tenants.

The price is higher and the rents are lower.