This is not an exhaustive list, but this should be a pretty lengthy conversation and be a great starting point in your search for a quality company. 

Since you are effectively making a negative return on your $100k of equity, I would assume it wouldn't be hard to beat that with other rental properties or even stocks/bonds in the long term.

A contractor who is licensed, bonded, and insured would cost 8 to 9k.

As a result, they are traded as bonds on the secondary market with the promise that each of loans are thoroughly vetted and meet certain criteria to ensure these homeowners have the ability to repay these loans.

Mortgage rates are like the stock market and these mortgage bonds trade in real time.

.), source) so rents and prices are almost guaranteed to increase significantly over time.The downside of this approach is that we cannot accurately estimate ROI and cash flow until we get the property under contract, since we do not know the interest rate.Allen, this was a lengthy response, but I hope it answers your question.

Now if we look at bond market, the yield in short term is higher than the longer date term.

He is presently out on bond.  

Im not opposed to stocks and bonds, and will ease into a low cost index fund/bond portfolio over time. 

For example, you could decide to rent in SD (gives you a place to live, allows flexibility of moving in the future, doesn’t tie up your capital), put the money in bonds or something else with low volatility, don’t sweat the low return it’s an opportunity cost, and start researching property investing out of state.