This middle ground of taking the cheap houses and getting them performing is not for the lazy, feint of heart or those who aren't willling to physically be in their market for the transition period as these houses go from vacant liabilities to occupied investments.

This one will be hard to rent because it is a nice middle calss house in a nice middle class neighborhood, and all the middle class renters are now living in McMansions, where they are paying a small portion of the mortgage on houses that aren't selling.

Once you have chosen your niche, you want to become familiar with every aspect, which covers getting past obstacles during the preparation stage, beginning stage, middle stage, and closing stage of the deal.

Then nail actual batts over all the groves and over the flat siding at the same width.I see that done on the more expensive middle class houses here, and it looks quite nice.

The book caught my eye because we are very much the higher end middle class who just end up making more and getting into higher debt each year.

Crowd, don't be surprised if someone decide to have a camp fire in the middle of your living room...

This would be for a rental, probably in a lower middle class neighborhood.

Oregon has a very high unemployment # but middle of the pack to low ratio of foreclosures ....

It seems to me that I'm looking for a situation somewhere in the middle.

I can see numerous paths that would make my 20 years optimistic (another major terrorist attack, a major middle east war with Russia or China on the other side, deflationary trends really kicking in) and only a few that would make my scenario pessimistic (inflation being the most likely.)