While you may picture yourself reaping in that rental cash in and on a vacation sitting pool side when the renter calls in to tell you your rental home is flooded or on fire or the toilet doesn't flush right makes the vacation a little less enjoyable. 

I'm about to purchase a pool of 5 notes in different states.

In fact, you even spent your summer while in high school installing below-grade swimming pools!...

You can find Rust Belt towns all day long where the pool of possible renters is so small that you have to procure a house for virtually nothing in order to make a dime.

Hello all,I'm new in the notes business and I have an opportunity to buy a pool of 4 notes in different states.

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Some areas have lower profit margins but are a guarantee, while others are a lot harder to find quantity, but it will only take 1 deal to net over $500k in profit in flip or allow you to collect a decent rent.B&H in some areas are a waste of time because the tenant pool is not the best or your have rent control issues, but there are quite a few places where renters are stabilized former homeowners that were displaced from the crash and they will pay well for the right house and not move for a while.

The property already has amenities (pool, park and courts). 

The Mechanicsburg one was a bit tougher (it's downtown - I did find renters but the application pool was not impressive in terms of income / credit).

Floors Demo of Pool, Bathroom gut, new windows and roof.