That will give you an idea of what rental rates are.2- It's more affordable to buy on the west side of I15 but you also have lower rental rates over there. 

Great way to get in at an affordable rate and create sweat equity that you can leverage for your next investment! 

They can be totally worthless and they can be only a partial solution to someone's problem.What you want is a Title Report which will tell you why they are using a Quit Claim Deed.

Despite tight housing inventory, rising interest rates, and affordability challenges, Austin posted double-digit increases in both single-family home sales (up 13.5% YOY) and sales dollar volume (up 19.8% YOY).

He wanted $1000 in earnest money at signing while I want (and really can afford) only $100.

If they feel that they can stay in your property until they can find a nice place which they can afford and be approved for, they will hold out for that.

So, in lieu of appraisal fees going up 50% so that an Oakland appraiser can actually afford to live in Oakland without doing a zillion super quick appraisals a month, sometimes you've got to "help" them like this. 

I was kind of wanting to start smaller for my first property, and keep to around 40-50k (that way if it didn't work out, I could afford to pay the loan and not lose my house).I'll also be transferring the cash to an LLC in order to build equity/assests for that, so that's a reason I decided to go the route I'm going.

Large organizations often work this way -- the left and right hands don't know what the other one is doing.If a technical solution won't fix the problem (such as letting the hot water run for a few minutes), Plan B is working with the landlord to get the issue resolved and Plan C is finding another place to live.

It seems they are making some zoning changes to keep rents affordable for residents rather than draconian zoning restrictions in places like CA which restrict building.https://coloradosprings.gov/adu