I just sold one SFH in Ocala (cash) and am in the middle of getting 2 others ready to sell. 

Where's the middle ground? 

@Matt Granzow I did - here are my main takeaways:Laundromat was closed in the middle of the day (even though it was advertised as open).

@David Ivy.

You're not in the middle of the deal. 

On to the details: I found an older duplex that has been on the market for quite a long time in the middle-eastern part of Wisconsin.

While this might not be realistic, at least you'll know where you stand and can adjust your offer to hopefully meet somewhere in the middle in the end.

The kitchen looks "just so" in the photographs the property manager sends the LL, the sort of aspirational upper-middle-class place the aspirational tenant the LL imagines is going to live in the place would like.Then the property manager approves the first slob he sees who ticks all the boxes, the tenant shows up, lives there for three years or so, chips the hell out of the granite around the sink, beats the cabinets to hell, pops six or seven tiles out of the backsplash and sticks them back on crookedly again with epoxy, disappears in the middle of the night but leaves his roaches behind.The property manager shrugs, takes a picture, sends it to the distraught landlord seven states away.

@Bryant Ervin Yes, we have monthly meeting at the Ivy at Buckhead last Wednesday of every month where about 100-125 people participate.

But again, I have friends that all they do is buy 50k homes out in the middle of no where or south Dallas homes or very cheap homes.