The idea of renting to family will, to paraphrase Dave Ramsey, make thanksgiving taste different.

This will allow you to take advantage of cashflow, taste landlord life and not put much of your own funds at risk for your education.If you could get good at this and scale it has a couple of benefits.1.

Re "to each their own": this isn't a "taste"  or "look" thing, excessive electrical stuff is wasteful and more to go wrong.

Dallas was too hot for my taste.

Can you muster up the bare empathy to see things the way the tenant probably would and the taste this would leave in any elected official's mouth if they had to adjudicate a petty, grasping, little dispute like this?

My taste buds have only known the flavor of Top Ramen and my wallet is full of triple coupons.

I must, however, satisfy some stipulations:  1) my offer must exceed the previous by 5%  2) I must put 5% down with the county clerk at the time I make my offer 3) I have 10 days to close 4) If i fail to close I forfeit the 5% down payment and also am required to make up any shortfall between the eventual sales price and the original offer 5)  My offer can in turn be upset by another bidder or the original bidder.Long story short there are too many questionmarks for my taste at this point. 

I think it's also a forgiving market for the out of state investor because the cash flow is so strong that you get a great taste of what it is like to invest from afar without worrying about losing money.If population growth is your main concern I would go to Columbus.If cash flow is your priority, I would choose Toledo or Cleveland.Happy to help if you need it :)

I think the issue with the double charge and lack of communication (had to find out tenant broke the lease myself) left a bad taste in my mouth and start to question a lot of the things I was seeing.

Oven way better than microwave everything tastes better.