The ones who are the most vulnerable are the small or medium sized landlords and they know that. 

(Near Chicago) but do inspection prices vary by state, size of house, or just the inspector?

You should be able to drag the column width to increase the size. 

At that point you really are just like a beginning Stock Investor, who "Hopes" that his decision, usually based on Fundamentals and not the actual Price Movement on a chart, will work out to be a good one.

Making a couple hundred dollars a month on individual single family homes seems like a slower way to go than acquiring 150 "doors" through a few medium size multi-family properties.Thanks in advance to anyone that takes the time to read this and share any wisdom you have!

(when a very comparable home in age & size across the street has zero days of vacancy for 15+ years?

What size multi-family?

Hi @Christine Mwai,Private money and portfolio ARMs might go for it.The big agencies, Fannie/Freddie/FHA/VA/USDA, have to make one-size-fits-all rules based in no small part on aggregate data.

At this size home I look to have it on the market 30-45 days after purchase.With a budget of $50kThe ARV is $175k

@Paolo Ruggieri I love Halperin Lyman for being very fast and efficient...and you know what, my contract always has the appropriate verbiage in place where my end buyer pays for the A-B closing cost that way I don't pay anything :) :)If your deal is good enough trust me they'll pay it and I always notate this before we even execute a contract.I've referenced some good investor friendly attorneys below but Halperin Lyman is #1 on my chart.