Mine are all roughly in the same price range as OP from 100-175k, but consistently the expense ratio (excluding financing) is usually more like 30-35% of rent, with the only estimated components being repairs (I budget a fixed $600/year per property, and I use a vacancy rate of 4%) But including taxes, hoa, property mgmt, vacancy, repairs, insurance, advertising costs for turnover all the properties are in this narrow range.I know my NOI targets tend to be less agressive than full time RE investors, but I'm pretty happy with properties that hit close to 7% cap rate.

Off-page SEO is something that has to be done CONSISTENTLY, no way around that!

I recently sent out a group of offers to 2 cities I have been researching consistently for the last couple months.

The payments collected consist of non-taxable return of capital, captial gain, and interest.

Yes I am very excited about football returning.I am a Falcons fan but have been with them through the good and bad not just a fair weather fan.When Matty Ice is on he is unstoppable.What we need is consistency of play and not falling apart sometimes.I also don't like that the head coach Mike Smith has gotten what appears to me to be COMFORTABLE in his play calling.Yes you have to have a system but being too comfortable means being PREDICTABLE to other teams.I liked when he first joined and took more risk.I remember Dan Reeves was a nice guy and coach for the Falcons but a horrible play caller.The solution was always "run it up the middle" even though we got stuffed many times.I just wish coaches would have some balls sometimes.If you want make it and win the Super Bowl you have to have a "no risk,no reward" mentality.

Poll after poll consistently showed that the vast majority of Americans wanted a balanced approach to dealing with the debt ceiling.

Banks don't make money when they make a loan- money is made in the servicing of a loan and through the consistent mortgage payments.

One who has control issues and is consistently stepping over dollars to save pennies.

The responses consistently came back "six months" or "12 months."

Here we have the Big 3 automakers that are pretty volnerable right now and I'm consistently reading in our paper about businesses that are laying off, cutting back or just plain closing their doors for good.