@Eric Gamble So true.

Tenants will be more attracted to properties that are conveniently located near public transportation, major highways, and popular destinations such as shopping centers, schools, and entertainment venues.

You might be shocked when they come back to you anyway... because the convenience of dealing with you as someone they now trust is 'better' to them than getting top dollar for their house.Situational Motivation Are your mortgage payments current?

thanks  , looking into 2 or 3  single family homes ...3-1  ...great price  , but rents are about 700 /month   , according to realtor  , better side of town and i also have a friend that lives 15m  away  , i am gonna gamble and try and close on 2 homes  , thanks again for insight

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/retirement-gamble/?

Being "sure" you will get something of a CoC higher than cost of financing the car is a gamble without validating that assumption, which is what my point was: work the numbers out to gain confidence in that common sense.

If your plan is only buy appreciating properties and gambling on the market to keepGoing up, we all saw what happened to those investors in 2008.

I can talk to you about my issue when it's convenient. 

If I was a gambling man, I would say you got it in Columbus or Cleveland, question is if you found it in a good part of town or the bad.

But it's a gamble, right?