Great points, ZharaBirmingham has relatively steady and diverse rental demand, and I’ve seen many investors I work with have success with C/B class buy-and-holds.Location is key—areas near UAB, major employers, and popular suburbs tend to have the strongest rental demand, while C/D class markets offer solid affordable housing and Section 8 opportunities.

You can still buy houses in small farm towns in MN for $25k.

I'm thinking of buying this as a rental, renting out the house and fencing the back part and renew a lease to rent it separately.

-Bill Mcbride newsletter if you want narrow and deep insights about weekly trends in housing -JBRE is a good one for deep dive on housing stats.

The buyer of course believing he had purchased the house paid a visit to the tenant, who of course called me.  

I need to redo the roof of the house lift up the second floor, the entire front deck of the house, demolish the old stucco, And replaced a lot of rotten wood and messed up beams.does anyone have any recommendations? 

It's growing rapidly and price of labor/ housing is dirt cheap.

We recently relocated from our primary residence to a rental property ourselves (we recently welcomed a baby, and our house no longer accommodated our evolving needs).

The agent works "for free" until the house sells, so taking them out of the deal is theft, and immoral."

When we were getting our own kitchen remodeled in our house a few months ago, we asked the contractor if he would be able to possibly fix that cupboard door at our rental property.