If they are below market, you can encourage them to stay by keeping the rent a little low but I don't recommend more than a 10% discount.

As long as they do their due diligence and understand the downsides and see that it works for them, they should be ENCOURAGED.

Thanks for the tip and encouragement.

On the other hand, he was probably successful on many occasions which encouraged him to continue the behavior.

This environment gives a ray of hope and encouragement to the enormous amount of dry powder sitting around waiting to be deployed.

I'd encourage you to poke around Zillow/Trulia/Redfin/whatever to familiarize yourself with sales prices and rent ranges in different areas and then drill down from there.Does that help at all?

Does anyone have words of encouragement, lol.

I was hoping to property manage from afar to really learn the market and place good tenants into the rentals but with this regulation it feels like they are strongly encouraging you to hire a property management firm.

I HIGHLY encourage you to look into self-directed IRAs and all the options you can invest in. 

@David Asche,While it’s legal, and perhaps even encouraged by the government to avoid taxes by doing things they want us to do (invest, support the housing market, creating jobs, etc.), they really frown on evading taxes.