If you go OOS, you have a lot of risk, earning say only a hundred a door, or your 20% gets wiped out when the market dips, or when a $1,000 repair will eat all your profit for the whole year -- meaning you are working for free for your property and only gain the equity/principal payments, or you have to fly there to take control over it, or signing a contract that has flowers that bloom gold that never really happens.