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Old 10-18-2008, 12:31 PM  
Barefootsies
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Note: your local market would play a factor in this as well. I know some people that rent out houses and the landlord takes care of the yard... I know others where the tenant takes care of the yard. If the landlord takes care of the yard, that is a lot of extra work you need to deal with particularly when you talk about multiple houses. It really depends on what you can do in your market.
In our market, the rentals for a house like I am looking at, USED to run around $750.00 a month. It was kinda capped around that (or so some said). Now the rents for similar, and a little bigger, are running as high as $1200.00 a month!

That is quite a fucking jump!

But even more, a $25,000.00 fixer upper. Even if you rent for 10 years, wait for economy to rebound, you should be able to get a decent return. Plus, you do not have a huge mortgage payment in the short term.
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