Of the 3 calls I generated from our test mailing of 274 pieces, 1 was a duplex with renters in it, the other was a condo with a renter in it, and the third was a SFR with a primary owner in it.

The best piece of advise I can give is to stay active on the site and forums, you will learn so much more by engaging the community.

Can you elaborate on the student housing piece?

Either or, you should treat both as tools of the trade and triple verify everything they whisper in yer ear.

I can pay the $35k and rehab it when I could just get a different property altogether for less or I spend another $8k to demo the existing property and clear the lot and end up with a piece of land that probably has no value (if houses in that area are worth $25k).

Open to any good REI clubs in the city, I've found one or two that I'm looking more into but if anyone has a good suggestion I'm all ears.

I had a piece of land tied up near Albertsons I was going to build 8 four-plexes on but title wouldn't insurance an easement and I was not comfortable moving forward.

Here is a piece of Vermont.http://www.huffingtonpost.com/good-magazine/vermont-most-likely-to-s_b_84820.htmlWhich was last Feb.

Screening is a pretty minor piece of the renting effort.

Shana some markets are not rental markets at all.In those cases you invest in other markets where you can leverage your returns from your higher income in a more healthy market.Example if you had 300k cash and you could buy 12 properties at 25,000 each that rented for 700 a piece for 8,400 a month could you get the same return in Canada buying a 300k house??