If you've lived in your town or city for 5 or 10 or 20 years, you will know things about it I can never know and thus you have a distinct advantage over me when it comes to investing - you know what a good price is, what a bad neighborhood is, what house looks good on paper but is underneath the airport flight path, and so on. 

And how much do you think the house is worth?

That tells you mainly want buyers are hunting for and purchasing.

Hello all,My name is Slavik and I'm a new out-of-state investor looking to invest in Jacksonville, FL.Currently focusing on single-family houses, without a specific strategy in mind.

My journey officially began at 16 years old, right after high school, when my father and I sold the house he was going to gift me and my brother to fund our first vacation rental in Cozumel, Mexico.

See who has poor reviews or seemingly bad management and use something like PropStream to find the owner based on the cross streets and exterior of the house.

So... the definition of a house hack, I guess.

I don't think anyone predicted that.I've always thought for rentals it's better to buy a $250,000 house and hope for the chance it goes to $350,000 than buy a $500,000 house hoping it goes to $750,000. 

The photos online won't be of much use to you as the photos where the money spend is at are in the basements, attics, and the exterior of the house, and every corner of those if that helps.

Good old fashioned hard work and patience will get you your next house.