It rents easily because of the low rents and he is a good property manager.

They have a shallow root ball and topple easily.

These systems allow you to track leads easily rather than counting calls from Google Voice and trying to determine what was the cause for their call. 

A person doing this themselves could easily spend 8k on just the kitchen alone on cabinets, flooring, appliances, counters...My suggestion for you is when you find the house you want walk through with a piece of paper. 

Postcards, especially when yours isn't the only one in their mailbox that day, are easily thrown out.

Trying to get a loan has been a nightmare, the banks don't care about 1.3 million in equity, it's my deductions off my returns and where my personal income fall then.I get 68,400k in rentsand 49k in personal income before deductions.I paid 325k for the property 20 years ago putting 90k downPart of me feels I should try and hold on to the property as it's been such a great investment ( I have lived in every unit and my mother had the rear cottage for 6 years)and another part of me is so fed up with the banks knowing I can make the new loan payments easily, and would never default having so much equity!

For example in Birmingham AL, the average house is 75k and can easily cash flow.

I could easily do this myself, he could easily do it himself...the key is that we want to do it together.I don't want it to seem like we are entering into this closed-minded.  

That would easily pay your mortgage and once you're ready to move out, voila!

Filter the noise people around you might be feeding you.My wife has been my sounding board since we started investing.