RTR, Engineering class of 1998. 

You need to pick couple of markets and focus on them and slowly expand your wings to other markets.

I know the cost will vary depending on the property Class type but I think it's important to factor in this cost since it's a consistent cost in the buy and hold portfolios.

It could have been that he meant to say "our units are not approved by Section 8", which would probably have been ok.People who receive any kind of public assistance (Sec. 8, TANF, SSI, AFDC, etc), are a protected class in Mass. 

We only do 2yr leases on our nicest A class homes. 

I know people who invest in the "hood" and kill it and others who invest in the higher middle class areas and see small returns but have tenants there for over a decade.

If you are looking at your standard middle class home, it is probably still wiser to buy.

Plus, living and working here, I know that area, and I know no one lives there that can afford to live elsewhere, which is not how you'd describe a true A-class neighborhood.

. - doesn't jiveshe arrived to see the property in an Uber, a small compact car with her 3 big kids she owns a 2012 Toyota, that's ither furniture didn't look very nice, cheap, and hardly any, she has boxes of junk though.she let me know she was going to do the landscape (pick weeds), - how many people making that much money are out there picking weeds, btw, weeds still there.

Pick their brains, their successes and their failures3) Take Action: Save capital, evaluate deals.