Heading into winter it will be harder to rent units in general and who knows how COVID will affect the market in the winter. 

@Benaiah Savage Great job for taking the first step and asking about what to do first - it's hard to get your head around all the info out there.

@Kris H.That's kind of where my head was at...

I’ve got 2 nice properties I’m closing on this month, headed to town to be very intentional about connecting in Toledo and purchasing 1-2 SFR’s per month.

Say you think it’s $230k for instance, you’re comfortable with that, neighbor is comfortable with that because you’re “saving money”.

You can buy a place for $60,000 and feel you are ready to roll and some crack head breaks in and steals cooper that can net them $20 but costs 3 thousand dollars in damage.

For instance, there's a neighborhood south of Nashville that has an 18-44 population of 2,908, but only 276 rental units.

Being IT background myself I would have separated / sub-netted each floor for performance and security but that may be overkill in this instance.

But in my head, it makes sense to shoot my shot with a slightly lower offer on all those houses and see if I can get lucky.

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