, vacancies, and usual repairs, your returns are going to be paltry at best, and negative at worst.With condos in particular there is the risk of special assessments that are going to happen throughout the course of your mortgage.  

What I'm trying to say is that if you make a mistake somewhere and get into a negative cash-flow situation, you will likely have to sell the thing at a loss to get out of it (if you can't fix the cash-flow problem).Many people don't consider the fact that one can actually lose money investing in real estate.  

(Rookie mistake- I did not select personal owners and remove the duplicate addresses so once I scribed the list I only had 558 usable names).$190 for 14 months for a mailbox at The UPS Store$304 for 558 color post cards mailed from Vista print.$0 for a free Google voice number. 

Want to make money in real estate use the law of attraction, practice it, draw winners to you, positive thought, negative thinking will make you a loser.

How can make sure that I do not go over the comps basically putting my self in negative.

The Turnkey word evokes such negative reactions because of experiences just like this one.  

I only seem to be able to find avg rates for homeowners and its different for 4+ unit income properties correct? 

You could be trapped in a negative cash flow situation for a very long time if the market softens.

It's 20' ceilings, so I only wanted one contractor to fix it, so we waited.This week he had me on the schedule, I told him I would arrange for a lift and have it at the house yesterday morning,,,all so good, right.  

My wife and I currently hold w-2 JOBS, I only work 36 hrs/wk Fri-Sun which provides me four days during the week to watch my daughter and learn about REI (bonus!).