It's also a great time to lay down the ground rules and make sure they are on board and just establish rapport in general, which to me is important. 

But now I am ready to hit the ground running.

I compared the rent to other townhouses in the area, there are some going from $800-1200. yes, the house did build equity.

But it really comes down to the comparable in each market.  

If you are trying to compare various methods of passive REI, I wrote an article on BP awhile back that takes a look at Three Key Routes for Passive Real Estate Investing

We will pay a $3,500 upfront fee to get started with F&G which is cheap compared to the 10% fee that MCC would charge on the total amount of business credit that they obtained for you.

Parts of it have been, such as the Leonidas area on the West side of Carrollton and also the East side of Carrollton. 70118 also includes the Black Pearl neighborhood and the areas around Audubon Park which are vastly different neighborhoods compared to around Eagle and Palm. 

Hi Brendon,Unless you have a great boots on ground team and know the market, it is difficult to purchase and manage out of state properties.

$550 down the drain, results = 1 jumper to hold ground if the water meter is removed.

Those "eyes and ears" on the ground mean everything.I can imagine that the prices would be higher and the service slower if I didn't have the personal relationships behind these business transactions.