Things the previous landlord never bothered to fix, including a leaky 25 year old furnace, which i replaced with a new $6k furnace.

It's well above our minimum loan size),  we have no problems bothering our under-writers (Yes even we all-powerful lenders have people in turn we have to keep happy) whether we can accept this location.A good lender can estimate the MSA while you are on the phone and if required can reply with the underwriter's decision within 10 minutes.Looking at Palmyra NY, I would definitely suggest making contact with a lender and asking them about the location before you put too much effort into opportunity.  

Don't bother with pre-forclosure and foreclosed properties since you'd mentioned not wanting to spend a lot of time fixing up the first investment home.

I recently had a claim of $25,000 against a CPA and all the attorneys told me it was too small an amount to bother with.

Speaking to the LTR crowd the higher rates don't bother us as much.

You will almost never get a great quality job for a fair price...The dismissive attitude and name-calling isn't lending credibility to your response or to contractors in general, but I'll take what you said into consideration.Sorry dude, I meant no offense by the term 'micro-manager' if that's what bothered you?

For example in cities like San Fran and NYC, don't even bother.

The $300 alone doesn't bother me much, but the franchise tax on top plus a potential excise tax on income begin to add up. 

If so, I'll just create in TN and not bother with OH.

If Seller financing can't beat that, then why bother?