I firmly believe having control over your investments offers greater potential to grow and expand. 

The neighborhood is now trendy and property values have skyrocketed and will continue to do so I imagine.

It’s a great house, fairly new (built in 2015) and the neighborhood isn’t bad.

Go look at similar properties in the neighborhood. 

The firms I posted above shows that upon death the other takes full ownership without going to Probate and its uncontested.

The other option I've been looking at has been to contact owners of dilapidated properties in good neighborhoods. 

Another plus for an NNN, rather than a PM, is that the lessee has a vested interest, and would do a better at it than a PM.As to my professor who did all the NNN deals, his family had a real estate brokerage firm of many years in NYC, he was the one running the leasing division, so he's able to approach old retired landlords with some authority, not a newbie who just finished the Carleton Sheets course.

I have noticed a property in my neighborhood that has been empty for about 6 months now.

@Samuel Liapis There are some opportunities in pockets on the south side, you just have to choose your neighborhoods and streets wisely.

You want to buy properties in nice neighborhoods at retail value and then rent them out?