I'm a 24-year-old man that's determined and ambitious and that wants to be extremely successful in all endeavors of life.

Verifying last 2 years of rental history and income extremely important to find the “best of the worst”.Make sure you understand the Class of properties you are looking at and the corresponding results to expect.The City of Detroit has 183 Neighborhoods we’ve analyzed.PM us if you’d like to discuss this logical approach in greater detail!

If you just look on Zillow, pick a random property, buy it, and turn it over to people you don't know to manage it, it's extremely likely that you will: have it cost a lot more than you thought, get overcharged for things, lose money, and have a big chunk of your savings just stuck in the property not really doing anything for you.Not to discourage you, or to say that you would do what these folks did, but here is what NOT to do OOS:https://www.biggerpockets.com/forums/48/topics/1137397-balti...https://www.biggerpockets.com/forums/963/topics/1195280-expe...https://www.biggerpockets.com/forums/48/topics/1160450-run-i...https://www.biggerpockets.com/forums/67/topics/1167190-strug...I hope this helps - happy to dialogue further. 

I feel that's extreme. 

Verifying last 2 years of rental history and income extremely important to find the “best of the worst”.Make sure you understand the Class of properties you are looking at and the corresponding results to expect.PM us if you’d like to discuss this logical approach in greater detail!

They now monitor the heat usage each month and send a bill to the tenants calculated from their usage and corresponding share of the gas bill.

Often times you'll find these properties to be a little bit outdated, but are in great condition and extremely well kept. 6.

I'm extremely open to changing my mind though, SEO just keeps pulling such amazing results.

Very dependent on each home's usage profile (as you mentioned) along with heating/cooling equipment type, utility rates and and solar net metering schemas.

I don't invest there (currently) but Columbia continually shows extremely strong data.