It has an advantage to a real estate investor in that there are a lot of nearby attractions that draw visitors, Sporting Park, NASCAR track and the Legends shopping district.  

If it doesn't make sense, find another partner if possible.You're right, 100% of zero is not attractive.

If you have cash, you'll have no trouble attracting attention :) SFH are rough in MA.

I'd leave out the bar-hopper comment, you might attract excessive partiers who skip work and can't pay their rent.Also, it's good that you mention a background check, but you need to list how much that will cost them.

True there is huge demand but if you are dictated by the government on what parts you can use for surgeries and they cut your pricing to the bone for volume it's not longer that attractive of a profession or many.

If you have the walls open you can make the electrical more useful and attractive to tenants or buyers.

Unless you know of a place where it could be cheap enough yet also not a war zone.I haven't given other opportunities much thought because passive income from buy and holds is so attractive to me.

For example, when I had a dozen deals under my belt I had a sufficient track record to attract people who already knew me to invest with me.

Boring, safe....but who wants someone standing on the corner during tax time dressed in a costume to attract customers?

FYI, you can also use these same geo-targeted keywords in your title and text of your Craigslist ads and now you could have 3 web properties sitting on the 1st page of Goolge attracting motivated sellers.