This is doable however my time to find, procure, and renovate rentals is very restricted due to my life on active duty.When looking strictly at the numbers a mortgage provides a better CoCR and a better ROE, but stepping back and looking at more plain facts it seems like leaving the house paid off is the best bet, thoughts? 

The training on the site seems to be geared towards beginning as well as experienced investors.  

Moreover, the only people who will contact the owner are realtors given that they are fully aware of that setup, and then will try to convince you that is impossible for you to sell your house on your own.All other listing websites with any meaningful market share are more straightforward and simply do not allow fsbo listing altogether – at least they don’t play games by using fsbo listings as a tool to magnify realtor’s extortion scheme.It is also well established in our court system that any entity controlling more than 50% of the market characterizes a monopoly.

My first issue is I live in a HCOL area (NY) and investing locally seems like numbers are not worth it.

We brought this up to the agents attention and quickly dismiss it saying the sellers won’t accept to create a hole on the attic, that the house is buy as it is (this was never in the terms to begin with) We offered to pay for the handy man to close the hole afterwards too & nothing. mind you, it’s not a cheap home, it’s not for closure home, seems to be in decent conditions.

@Donald A Brownlee Jr.If it’s in bad shape $75k seems light for a renovation.

I read somewhere that a good IRR is somewhere between 18-20% so this being 33.60% already seems almost too good to be true..

@April Birdsong I’m certainly not a contractor or even a handyman but in the properties I’ve looked at it seems that even replacement windows need to be replaced about every 15 years.

Seems excessive to me.

And since you are having to take the tenant to collections, this seems logical.