Do the math, cuz I have - a desire for a 3% increase in rent will take a VERY long to time get to after it covers one month of vacancy loss.

Do you have the property priced at true, researched, market value, or did you start at "Cost + Desired Profit = List Price?"

Be Firm but Reasonable, Pro-Active yet not Pushy.

I’m new to Bigger Pockets and looking for some advice. 36 years old, work for an investment firm and between my wife and I we make about $300k a year.

The idea is to sandwich the joint-compound repairs between layers of oil-based primer.Paint as desired after two hours.

Our focus is buy and hold as our desire is to retire back to OK (I am currently active duty military).Purpose of this blog is to build a network back in OK to bounce ideas off of, find the right people to have in our network for PMs, GCs, and anything else that may assist us in moving our REI forward in the right direction.Just for a quick description of what we are looking for:SFH (possibly duplex) 3/2 around 1000 +/- sqftNeighborhoods we would be willing to raise our kids in ourselves.We really like the 2% rule but willing to consider 1.5% but also look at the 50% rules as well.Would really like to see rents come in around $800...starting to think $700 would be a conservative starting point.Somewhere in the $50-$80K price point.We look forward to connecting with likeminded BPers!

@James Cannon I'd recommend you get some firm numbers for both options buying and selling and that way you will have all the info you need to make a firm decision. 

If you loosened your criteria a bit (older vintage, lesser price point, less desirable part of town) you could likely be able to cash flow a bit more per month but from what I have seen not by a whole lot. 

Between next door pet lady yelling at all times of the day from 6 am to 8pm for her cats/dogs to go potty and neighbor across the street who has numerous police visits makes the house less desirable for me to keep. 2.

Has anyone invested into the state yet and what cities are looking most desirable.