Neither of us are show offs, but we’re not cheap.

The rent from a roommate plus the other half covers the mortgage payment, making my cost of living cheap, while I get to learn about the market, practice making improvements to the property, and get experience managing tenants.  

There are some cheap deals in Trenton Nj 5 minutes from me across the river, rough neighborhoods, but deal for under 20k

Nothing will kill a persons opinion of a business this day in age like a non-existent or cheap looking website. 

I have seen landlords miss two months worth of rent because they were too cheap to pay 85 bucks to start eviction hoping the tenant would come through.

Your trailer license registration will be cheap and will be good for 5 years. 

If I were you I'd start looking for houses that cost no more that 60k...I know that's saying something when an cheap house in LA cost 300k.

The 'cheap' houses around the Toronto market go for around $400-500k.

Don't be cheap about mailing man.

Cheap rentals require cheap repairs.One interesting thing I just observed is that over a 20 year period on a sfr my monthly cost for maintenance, cleaning, repairs and capex were $171 pm while a duplex during the same time had a monthly of $195; only $24 higher for the extra unit.The big thing though is that the sfr has appreciated at twice the rate as the duplex.