Buy buying distressed property and dealing with what comes with it has allowed me to be able to make up my full time corporate salary with better hours and more family life.All in all, the answer is the pain worth it for the financial reward ?

This rewards long term tenants and keeps them under market enough that they can't find a new place as easily, and continues to close your gap.Another tip is to offer to renovate the bathroom for them while they live there.  

They are promoting the opportunity to investors and getting paid for you to take the risk.It may be completely legit, but your risk definitely comes into play in this set-up and your reward needs to be big.    

It was very rewarding however I grew tired of the HMOs and cold weather.

Reward.

A team is hugely important and having clear roles and rewards identified in advance is a good thing.

It's a measure of risk/reward.

I may be late to the party, but feel a need to weigh in on some key points:1) A portion of Detroit's deficit can be attributed to changes in the state's municipal funding system, changes which victimized urban and fully developed areas and rewarded small towns and open areas.  

She has to be careful because people will overprice and try to reap the rewards of an A / B area on their property  sale being a few miles away yet knowing that they are a C / D area. 

Real estate is the most rewarding and greatest wealth building tool on the planet.