@Ned Carey  provides some excellent advice about searching surrounding areas.

Find YOUR market, and excel in YOUR niche'. 

It has excellent loan terms so we do not want to lose it.

A little bit about myself for anyone interested:I'm looking to be a buy-and-hold investor while continuing my regular job - I am looking to put money to work and would be potentially interested in doing so as part of someone else's deal; I would consider both SFR and MFR deals.I am an investor in my day job (currently private equity / buyouts, soon to become public equities) so may have some bad habits, or at least industry-specific ones, to break; I generally anticipate being relatively analytical / systematic in looking at dealsMy family held a few properties when I was growing up - I have experience personally doing refurbishing work and secondhand experience with property management activities (this will hopefully help me as contextual information, I don't anticipate taking on an active role in refurb or property management in the near future)Right now, I am trying to educate myself on the process of deal sourcing (MLS, wholesaler buyer lists, etc.) and market data sources; in particular, I would really appreciate any input on good sources for publicly available market-level data in manipulable format such as Excel or .csv as well as input from anyone who uses a systematic deal-screening approach both on their criteria and how they get reliable / quality data into a screening-friendly formatThanks for everything people have already contributed. 

I am looking at a property that is in an excellent neighborhood and the upkeep is really well done.

My first CRM was an Excel spreadsheet @Michael Westberry .

I do know if YOU do any kind of work to the house that exceeds $500 and YOU're not a General Contractor, you have to hold the house for 12 months before you can sell it, or all of the work has to be done by a GC.

I'm the idea guy, but stink at Operational Excellence...The type of idea-- 1+1 = 3.

Gross Potential Income $132,000 - Vacancy ($10,560) 8% - Concessions, Loss to Lease, Bad Debt $0 Effective Gross Income $121,440 Other Income (Laundry) $2,500 Total Net Income $123,940 EXPENSES Real Estate Taxes $12,500 Insurance $0 Contract Services $2,190 Trash Removal $0 Electric $0 Gas $0 Water and Sewer OR All Utilities $37,500 Legal $1,000 Management Fee 8.00% $9,915 Repairs and Maintenance  $7,500 General/Admin $1,100 Payroll $0 Other $500 Deposit to Replacement Reserve $3,000 Total Expenses $75,205 Net Operating Income (NOI) $48,735 Debt Service Principal $7,384 Interest $24,857 Total Debt Service $32,242 Total Distributions to Members $16,493 Member Contribution $234,163 ROE 7.044% Member Cash on Cash Return 7.04%

Good evening everyone,Our team is in search of an excellent HVAC guy.