build it instead of buying it. especially in the 5-50 range you are going to get garbage that's 80-120 years old in c neighborhoods. i can find land in almost any zip code and make the numbers work in columbus. or partner on a project locally. just my 2 cents but build to rent is much stronger right now in my opinion in columbus than buying existing assets 

When I listed concerns of flagrant lease violations, gone unchecked (derelict vehicles, unregistered large breed dogs who are not picked up after, garbage scattered out in the yard, piles of debris; old tires, tv, kitchen sink, broken wheel barrow, all sitting out in plain sight for a month or more), wash machine drain hose running out a window and draining into the lawn.

But that's a garbage metric for REI. 

Sometimes people don't want to live next to people that have a bunch of garbage in their front yard, that are loud and obnoxious, that are creepy and weird, or maybe who knows maybe the house next-door or on the same block had a murder or a shooting happen at it and it is a well-known thing that people can look up. regardless, I think that due diligence goes into affect here pretty well.

The new teaching were something like 50 ways to swindle a homeowner out of their equity; search there garbage to find bank statements indicating how desperate they are; trash talk the property telling them no one except you would buy it and low ball them; have an associate or 2 go by, look at the house, and point out structural deficiencies (just make them up even if they don’t exist).  

DIY online cost segs that are <$1k are being tossed out in audit like yesterday's garbage lately. 

@Jack PasmoreGIGO garbage in garbage out. 

I will say the few guests we have had through them have been easy, but their owner portal is garbage.     

It's the old adage of garbage in garbage out.

The original post is, frankly, garbage.