Purchase price: $270,000 Cash invested: $10,000 4 bed one bath single family home in small town with great school district, about 10 minutes from major city on Front Range of Colorado.

At the moment, we have a project in a town called Park Hills.

I'll be out of town, sadly.

If the owner lives in town, you could even go knock on their door, I find this to be extremely successful when you are going after foreclosed properties.As to your 1st post, you might want to look at city data for growing markets, It looks like Rochester lost population last year, vs if you look at sunbelt cities like, Houston, DFW, Austin, Miami, Orlando, Tampa, these cities saw at a minimum 1% population increase.

That part of town has been ghetto forever and always will be.

Happy to connect anytime as well if you're interested in hearing about the town.

If that is the case in your town, you will have to fix it if Seller doesn't, so make that a negotiating point since one of you has to fix it.Interior disturbance is likely from your soil line out to the main.

I started in sfh's in small towns near where I live and built a portfolio of 83 homes. 

The quintessential PNW small town. 

We are in a small Midwest college town (MAC school) of about 60k people.