There are certainly rental properties in that price range around Spokane.

If that first one is interesting to you (915k in San Ramon) you can look in the SF market itself as well...you'll be down near the Glen Park and Balboa Park BART stations, but there are fix and flips in that area in the 700k-1mil range.

Just from a quick glance it looks like $500-$600 is the rent rate for the area, take out taxes (100), insurance (90), property mgmt (60), repairs (60), vacancy (100), and capex (30), that's 470 in expenses, leaving cash flow in the 30-130 range.

I assumed 45% and 12% respectively for a total of 57%.Another issue with D areas is finding good PMs to manage them.  

He also learned if the phone rang and I put my finger up to my mouth, it meant shhhhh... 

I'm trying to familiarize myself with the area because I've noticed some places where properties sit on the market for months and drive by and cannot identify why in respect to other areas where movement is high. 

Google Keith Borg, he's very well respected in the REI community.

When I used to work construction, there was the whole range of people: Frugal/thrifty people that drove older cars/trucks and people who always "needed" a brand new truck.

Respectfully, LeBron 

In the past 180 days duplexes in 28205 have sold in the range of $75 - $140K.