If you wan to buy and hold, you'll want areas that rent high in comparison to purchase price/ PITI, but avoid war zones.

I am understanding that the biggest drawback from flipster is the limited amount of leads one gets from their packages in comparison to Popstream.  

Hey Darrell, I am located in Boise, and quite often hear the comparison between the two markets, maybe this article will help you compare both Boise and Austin and strike up some thoughts. https://austonia.com/austin-vs...

**Investing with an IRA is a totally different tax paradigm, and making this comparison between a given asset (in this case real estate) in after-tax and retirement realms is an apples and oranges scenario.  

Not only will their math be based on an apples-to-oranges comparison, but you can do this yourself for free.

But please check our single family rental investment comparison so you can see the benefits of our model vs a DIY strategy.At Property Pool we focus on the single family rental space and we are giving accredited investors the opportunity to join expertly crafted single family rental pools.

@Joe Villeneuve thank you for the comparison.  

So he shook his head and said it doesn't look right like it's almost like your charging for your tools doing the job.But I know the director of the agency, and she'll go crazy if the fees went up $1,000 even though it's still cheaper by comparison.

And you don't have to get "office inspection" to get a report with address history, at least I can say that TenantReports.com can give such reports.The address history should be requested in your application to be completed by the tenant; when you get the credit report's address history you perform a comparison - any addresses on the credit report but not on the application are addresses that should be closely investigated first.

Theres very little chance you are getting 3/8ths difference in an apples to apples comparison.