A combined 92% own under 10 doors.This is City of Milwaukee only, so about 600,000 population out of the 1.6 million for the Milwaukee metro area.

Lara from Milwaukee WI :) 

@Mark Koontz congrats on your venture and be sure to pay the couple hundred bucks to be part of NARPM.  

Even ballpark figures can guide me in the right direction.Referrals: If you've had positive experiences with contractors in Columbus who specialize in any of these areas, I would greatly appreciate your recommendations.Your insights and assistance will be invaluable.You could fix a lot of this stuff with a few hours and a couple hundred bucks Lowes tripThere are also a lot of items I would not doDid you speak to your inspector about these items yet?

You can sell a few to pay off the rest or 1031 them into passive income.Any property you buy today should appreciate about 4.9% p.a. that's been US average (insert a % you believe is right, I believe Milwaukee may actually beat this number) over the next decades and your downpayment is leveraged 4:1, so that in itself produces a lot more equity over decades than you could ever safe up. 

Are you in this to risk it all and make a quick buck or you are in this for the long haul. 

@Eli Moore - looks like an old Milwaukee brick basement.

You don't need to call around to 10 places just go to someone that can explain things, will not skimp on coverage to save a couple bucks, and can shop around.

Those buyers will either be experience investors who don't need their own representation or ignorant buyers trying to save a buck and might be taken advantage of by the listing agent.A portion of the people will go to the listing agent for showing but will be using their real estate attorney to write offers and negotiate.

You will get more bang for your buck hands down.