Quote from @Stuart Udis: Below is a cut/paste response from me in 2023.

Any day now my cut is coming and I can retire. 

While this doesn’t cut out the middleman completely, you can find excellent investment opportunities for flipping houses at a much better price than you’ll find on public real estate markets.

Federal land in the middle of nowhere does not solve the crisis, crisis can be solved by smarter planning, better use of land and getting politicians to cut through the red tape where costs to develop are astronomical. 

If not, buying something random and making one trip there for the inspection isn't going to cut it, and will not protect you from buying a bad deal.Can you pick a market within a couple hours of you instead?  

I made and mailed all my yellow letters by hand to cut and save on costs.

The tenant pool is definitely cut to a fraction and many applicants you can find all have different lease time frames.

And what I mean by that is that I would take a house that needed 30k in rehab and cut the rehab budget down to 20k and leave the old windows. 

Also, it would cut back on other tenants "encroaching" over imaginary lines of the other tenants spaces.

The purchase prices, lease rates, asset quality and neighborhood safety are not aligning.