I have just started my Real Estate Investing journey marketing now for the past month or so driving for dollars.

Vacancy and management will be the same portion of income no matter the amount of rent or FMV.Where you can drive down the expenses is as you get into larger (more units) properties, efficiencies of scale start to kick in.

They feel compelled to analyze the way we drive, the way we parent, and the way we spend our money.

PPC has been driving traffic to my site, but after spending $500 on ppc in the last 2 weeks, I have only gotten 2 leads, one which is a mobile home in a rural area (unqualified), and one which is in a suburban area with code violations, but after trying to call them twice, I have not heard from them at all. 

.- You have to drive by and take a close look at all properties you plan to bid on - to make sure there is still a house there.

The demand on his limited supply gives more assurance of success and possibly can drive up the rental income. 

There are so many in my area, but they tend to overlap and I often drive up to an hour each way.

In fact, home inspections are often used to drive down pricing...inspector exaggerates price of defects and seller is somewhat committed to buyer and is loathe to put home back on market--especially if they need to sell quickly for a variety of reasons  

Some from driving and some from the same lists everyone else is pulling in my area.

When I work with Sheriff Sale clients, they sit at the auction and I sit at the computer and run the block values before they bid for new properties and for others we have already done our due diligence by driving by, checking for as many liens as we can find, and talking to neighbors.