This includes other items such as Management, vacancy etc.Now you may not spend 50% every year, but in the years when you need to replace big ticket items or if a tenant causes damage, falls behind on rent and has to be evicted then some years this may exceed 50%.

We also purchase almost all of our materials and supplies for maintenance/repair/upgrades to our credit card, as well as big ticket items like appliances, floor covering, and plumbing fixtures.

After Thanksgiving, people are spending money on the holidays and holiday travel and budgets get tight on big ticket items like moving. 

Well the German bund(bond) is at never before seen levels because of the flight to safety in the entire Eurozone.   

It's a growing economy, prices are in our range, it's a fairly close drive/flight for us and, here's why I'm leaning there, my parents are retired there.My questions:What are some of the big hurdles that you have found doing out of state RE?

Bridget, buy a plane ticket, fly to GA and spend a weekend, or a week, driving around and get to know these areas.

The key to selling real estate, or any big ticket item really, is to remain top of mind for that topic for as many people as possible.

Or there's a lot of deferred maintenance that I  know we'll have to complete because the previous landlord rode the house into the ground and is selling before the big ticket expenses hit.Use your worksheet and the numbers don't lie.  

To give a background we got quotes on the big ticket items talking with subs directly and we’ve got a ballpark of about 120k-140k in rehab with a pp of 45k, Arv- 260k-275k.

All those 1950s investors who followed the trend absolutely struggled through the 1960s and 70s, wondering why they never anticipated white flight, the decline of American manufacturing, and southern migration.