My question is should I put DW & GD in or is there to many maintenance issues with these items when renters are involved?

When I went through it, there was definitely a lot maintenance that needed to be done.

In many cases, when you add the taxes, insurance, maintenance, repairs, and lost value of money that might've been used somewhere else it is difficult to argue about owning a home is better.Of course, there are other considerations.

Can I say "must have no evictions in 5 years, annual income that is 70x monthly rent, etc?

The average annual increase has been between 1-2% with me personally seeing 2-3% over the last 2 years.

They haven't paid 2012 annual report fees... just this year though, so not a big deal. #3.

To account for that, you either need to have awesome cash flow, or get the price lower to account for said future costs (or get a deferred maintenance credit from the seller)

I own several SFHs in the lower end of the scale (20k-after-rehab-ish) and while those rent for 550$ on average, some months I may see 20% of that in net income, and most of the time like Jon side, when I get hit with something "unexpected" it may take a big chunk of the gross since while the house is cheap, maintenance costs are high in comparison.

Other expenses - ballpark of 15-20% of gross rent goes towards maintenance & vacancy = N/ATotal = $47,000This is just an example I used with the information I was given.

If the stock market can (or might) give me 10% annual return over time, self directed real estate investing can give me 20% a year over time.