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[quote=Anonymous]My first suggestion is that you tell us if you are trying to rent it out yourselves and then start a new thread asking that question, how do I effectively market this property? 
If you’re using a Realtor, find one who farms that neighborhood. Don’t listen to what they say, all of them will say whatever they need to, look at past results. If they don’t match properties akin to yours, move on. 
Think too about why you are renting v. selling. Do you want to come back to the property in a few years? That’d be the only reason I’d ever be a landlord.  I truly hated it when we did it, and am not convinced whatever money you *may* happen to make is worth dealing with the people you will need to deal with, lots of outright scammers, lots of incompetence, lots of nastiness, all while trying to actually live and enjoy your own life. 
Of course, someone is going to come on here and say they have the best tenants, they’ve been there for 10 years, they get along so well, they hang out every weekend, and yes that can happen. It rarely does though especially for mom-and-pop landlords. You simply don’t have the time to take care of the house you live in, work, be a good parent if you have kids *and* effectively be a good landlord. Offering incentives doesn’t help, one dog becomes 2 or 3. One discount becomes another. One “my brother needs to stay for a week” becomes “the brother never leaves, his girlfriend moved in, and it was her toddler that trashed the place, but now the brother and girlfriend broke up and have a no contact order, so good luck getting money for damages”. 
It's very different from house exists, nice people move in and money rains in every month. Say what anybody will about the stock market, I’ve never gotten a call from the stock market on a beautiful Saturday morning telling me it can’t pay rent this month or the furnace is making a weird noise or the property manager has refused to call them back. 
Tell us exactly what/how you’re doing and maybe we can help.    
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