The houses in the area are increasingly sought after as a cheaper alternative to City of Decatur.  

I'm OK with that since the alternative is cash payments.Shera Gregory

Alternative is to fire my wife from LLC :-)

But if you reject the 50% rule and assume taxes and insurance are your only expenses you will fail as a landlord.My 10% goal is based simply on alternative investments. 

All of my properties are turn-of-the-century (20th) in construction. We've had a good insurance policy through Travelers since '08, but over the last several years the premium has gone up almost 50%, with no claims. M...

Alternatively, you could try selling it on a wrap.

Last night, Google shut down the second Google Voice number I set up for her.Obviously, I like GV because of its price and I can log in to see her work, listen to messages from sellers, read texts, etc.Looking for an alternative service.

Alternatively, you could pick a niche or two and get really good at it/them.

National Real Estate Investor posted an article recently called, “8 Alternative Property Types for Today’s Real Estate Investor.”

I'll present an alternate angle on the KYREIA meetings.