Best thing to do is start by reading The Ultimate Guide to Grading Cleveland Neighborhoods.

Listings were published in a book and realtors kept all the keys in their office there were no lock box's  you had to go to the listing brokers office and check out the keys. 

To determine your rental rate, you need to compare your apartments to others in the area.

Going to local meetups is always the first step! 

I love the idea and I would like to analyze deals using a variety of strategies and model each strategy out, however I am struggling when it comes to the rubber meeting the road for analyzing the deals.For example, I would like to analyze deals in a single spreadsheet for various strategies such as seller financing, subto, traditional lender, external investor, etc. etc. 

Yes BofA is all over the country but if you go to your local branch it's pretty likely that loan officer and/or office wouldn't be licensed to operate in another state. 

Go ahead and look me up.

I spoke to her and they were going to do a light remodel (barely lipstick on a pig) and start renting the place. 

Hopefully you never actually have to make a claim. 

(Find them on FB)Kenosha/Racine used to have a really good investor group but I haven't seen them post about meetups for close to a year now.