I don't take either the 2% rule or 50% rule into account when I look at properties.

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I also have a MBA with my undergraduate in finance and accounting.

I've heard similar accounts from other military friends that own property in Colorado Springs, they're seeing the positive effects of the strong market.  

This is why investment property loans have debt service coverage ratios or carte blanche reductions of gross rents to account for vacancy loss, etc.

Here we are today, and if those people had spent as much time and energy focused on investing as they did on "preparing for the end," they'd have made a lot of money over the past few years.Nobody knows where the economy is headed, and even economic geniuses can't account for the non-monetary factors that influence national and global markets.

I've read that it's harder to get tenants evicted (but, the portion of their rent that comes straight from section 8 might be accounted for).

Maybe the best idea might be to shop both and see where you find the better buy while taking into account you AZ connections.

Sit down with your accountant and project out the situation so you don't have any problems.

You can see a full accounting of that month posted here[/url]http://www.biggerpockets.com/blogs/3976/blog_posts/28423-costs-revenue-for-june[url]The short version is, after all revenue is accounted for and bills received paid, we have $281 left.