Or a combination of the three?

- the only place i put my phone number is on the picture that i attach to the posting - I am using three different versions of posts.

Tenants want to stay for three years so vacancy is near zero up through end of year 3.    

Why not let a professional or three look at it so you know exactly what the problem is and the costs to fix. 

I am currently living in north carolina and will be for another year or so... army...My goals are to get my first rental property within the next three months. 

At that point you would have three items 1) your adjusted basis 2) your depreciation recapture (25% tax IIRC) 3) your gain (taxed at 15-20% IIRC).Your basis throughout the years will change as you decrease it by taking depreciation, and increase it when you perform improvements which will then be depreciated.

We had residents that chain smoked three packs a day, indoors, while hooked to an oxygen tank.  

Can't believe its been three years.There is mixed pressure on the market as a whole here now.

Hello everyone, I recently attended a three day workshop for RE investing in which they were telling me quite a bit abiut real estate investing.

I spent my first three weeks at my places in Midtown(Projects are very close by) telling the a few of the younger locals whatever they were doing wasn't going down on my street anymore.