Poor people have been locked outta home ownership, Dickey...

As fir making money as a slum lord??? Not the best business plan but there are lots of misguided rich folks who just can't help themselves and get in and outta (real quick) that business...

No, my experiance is that it's the average Joe who can buy the rooming house and with a lotta hands on can make a few bucks and put up with the disappointyments that gfo along with the deal... I knew many of these folks when I was a socail worker... I had to... They needed me and I needed them... The most successfull where than hands on guys who owned two or three buildings, did most of their own maintenance, and were wise ehoung to understand that a lotta folks who they rented to were folks who would soon be back in state mental hospitals...

That, unfortaunately, is reality these days...

Bobert