What are your thoughts on investing in rural rural areas? it seems like you can cash flow $500 to $600 /mo and the property cost 140k…but I don’t expect much appreciation

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I live in a rural rural area and you can't just pick up the phone book to find a plumber or electrician or painter. You have to ask your neighbor to ask around at church to see if anyone knows a guy and then wait a couple months.

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It’s about 30 minutes from my Locale in Georgia, i think this won’t be an assume but a good consideration

Can work if there’s a decent management company at a local city/large town nearby

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Long distance landlording is always risky.
Rural areas generally have there own ways of handling things which urban people can’t fathom or handle.

Care to explain?

What kind of property is this, OP?

If I were the landlord, I would build into the lease that this is all the lessee’s responsibility and make clear that anything you have to do will be surcharged against the lessee and/ or deducted from whatever security deposit you have. That’s what I would do, at any rate.

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