Rental income may not justify the sales prices that we may be accustomed to, but that could be off-set if you find a good bargain, or a fixer-upper with a lower cost.I think the formula is the same as any other place, but our margins are slimmer without a good low purchase price, or high rental income.

Lower quality deals and slimmer profit margins?

Ideally, it only means being able to take slimmer deals when juicier opportunities dry up.  

While we have slimmer margins we have been able to keep tight control.

KC has tremendous market fundamentals that I love but inventory has been just a hair slimmer there.

We just feel the margins in fix and flip are getting slimmer and want to move into cash flowing rentals to ride out any downturn.  

You can find single family homes for under $1000k where rent more than covers your expenses while I've found margins are much slimmer in the DC area despite a much larger investment.

Most sourced off the MLS, short sales or from direct marketing.I'm considering doing a trustee / foreclosure auction again even knowing that it's most likely slimmer pickings.  

Especially in a slimmer margin new construction area like ATL.  

For too many years sinkhole claims were a much used and abused scam benefiting homeowners, engineering firms, repair companies, lawyers etc..By some remarkable coincidence, as the cost of coverage became more expensive, benefits became slimmer, and the economy improved, the amount of claims have fallen off dramatically.