On salaries: they have to be high enough to attract applicants, but they also have to be high enough to retain employees.Maybe you could hire police for very low wages.

The house is at a very good location, and the pricing is quite attractive based on our analysis.

I first filter out the ugly people...that eliminates about 95% of the leads...Then I sort out the idiots and liberals...That leaves me with the moderately attractive conservatives that I can work with..I actually have a VA I've used for years that pulls the MLS data for houses in the zip codes I want.

Are the "richer" people attracted to the nicer looking rentals?

I'll still buy cash flow rentals but the tax and borrowing loss makes it less attractive than buying notes which is where I'm beginning to shift my focus.

Handwritten attracts tenants.

Depressed prices coupled with the dollar's descent has attracted a lot of foreign investors to the distressed US real estate market ...

Rents, especially now with high vacancy rates and lowering rents, are not very attractive in terms of cap rates.

I think it will reach a point where it looks very attractive to some of these big companies manufacturing oversees that want to bring production back to the U.S..Just a thought.

So I have no problem with that, although I wish Google could make their adwords a little bit more attractive to see.BTW, the forum pages seem to be working much faster than before, so that's a good thing.