I'm interested in finding and learning how to increase our rents received each month and possibly flipping or owning more rentals.

If you have a strong historical capital and rent appreciation rate it might make sense to get into this market and wait for natural rent increases and appreciation to take hold and make for better investments if you wanted to stay local.You could also consider looking for turn-key investments in another city (Indy, Memphis, etc) where the returns could be much better - but the risk without having the ability to drive by the properties could be greater.

Maybe improvements that can that can be made to increase the rents if a multi or family.

Our plumbing calls did not increase post refit.

Design is increasingly a key role, in-town Atlanta.I'll PM you for getting together.Rick

exactly....you would NOT believe what we have seen pulled out of the blower motor because they removed the filter (but forgot to replace it).We even had one filter so clogged it got sucked into the blower motor fins & was subsequently shredded.I can remember the days when you had to go in once a month & oil the blower motor bearings by hand but those suckers ran forever.

The places mentioned earlier had excellent ROI and low taxes and the thoughts were that baby boomers may head to these areas and therefore increase the home values in the future.I have five more years before I can receive my pension.

When you have good ones though, they increase the value of your properties.Check out the landlord tenant handbook http://www.dhcd.virginia.gov/HomelessnesstoHomeownership/PDFs/Landlord_Tenant_Handbook.pdfIt outlines the procedures which you need to follow to properly evict a tenant.

To be clear circumstances are not "I want a new house", circumstances are "changing jobs more than a reasonable commuting distance away", "getting a divorce" and "increased family size".

They had an increase of 3%.