Is the landlord responsible to solve their dispute?

Buy and hold real estate investors love to tell the stories about how they cleaned title and solved all sorts of problems.

This is my first investment and i can really use your guys expertise One effective method is to use the MLS and look at units that have leased in that area.

What methods do you all use to protect against personal liability?

the chance of long-term return is much higher with the appreciation method (assuming the property is in a nice location) - so I realize I am willing to hold it if that is the case with this property.What I don't know is - how can I do an assessment or calculation (with assumptions of course) to compare whether one makes sense over the other?

@Greg Dickerson thank you .I did run the numbers as a rental with the four square method and it looks like I’ll cash flow after all expensive about  350 a month with CoC ROI of 9.69% . 

I cannot remember the official term used to describe this method which makes it even more difficult!

Glad to hear the old school off market methods may still have some value.

@Karen Higgins we've considered them but there a few issues/problems we can't seem solve or find an answer to... which is why we currently don't.

@Eric Nelson I want to use the B.R.R.R.R method.