Different types of rooming houses (ie. student, institutional, social/low income) will require different focus and skill sets.Boarding houses (meals served), group homes and care facilities require additional administrative effort in exchange for the greater revenue.  

the water bills are insanely high as of now. the reason for the high water bills are the same as the reason that Baltimore city sends its ECB inspectors out with quotas for fines to issue to people vs responding to the requests of citizens to deal with problems. and is the same reason that the baltimore city claims department has adopted a policy of mass denial of all submitted claims , immaterial of their validity, in an effort to not pay for anything (which is often the same policy taken by FOR PROFIT insurance companies).

There's no secret info that only a few have access to, so investing has two requisites:  (1) money, (2) effort. 

If you go into it with the right reasons to treat people with a high level of care and effort, the success will follow in terms of transactions.

I'm ready to take it farther with an agressive, full-time REI effort but I need help!

He then began to explain how, in an effort to attack a lender's note, he could eviscerate them, in part, due to the language on the card by how they initially represented themselves.

Again, these may not be mutually exclusive, and many are both investment and business.A simple question to ask yourself is: do I want to use my capital to make money, do I want to use my personal effort to make money. or do I want to use both?  

I'm very curious on this because it seems as it requires less effort...

Landlords waste too much time and effort trying to make a applicant fit and in the end only get burned.

All of these efforts have been for others.By read the BP posts; I  am excited to do one of my own.I have a vacant parcel that is located across the way from a hospital that I need some mentoring and/or an investor to walk me down the garden path (not blind folded).This can be a short-term gain or a long-range hold, I  am open!