Cape Coral is especially popular among investors for its waterfront properties and growing infrastructure.

In general, when I've called Cobb County, I've found it really depends on who you talk to, some of the people there are knowledgeable and helpful and some really don't have a clue and are not very customer-service-oriented. 

Look for neighborhoods where house hacking is popular and where you can find properties that fit your budget and investment goals.Networking: Connect with other investors in your area.

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everything is decent, but they have very poor customer service 

It's definitely gotten really popular over the past few years and some people have built very successful businesses off of it, but if you aren't looking to do that full time then I would recommend buying a property instead as your margins will be far better and you have more options to get out of it if the market or your rentals go south.

This makes Augusta a pretty popular place to invest for out of state and even out of country investors.

I bought a business where the prior owner was sued for $3 million causing injuries to some customers.

Gas + convenience store, where the gas sales are mainly a tool to draw customers into the C-store. 

The easiest way to do this outside of some sort of scraping tool (which i recommend digging into), is to develop a solid list of ways to look for deals (not just zillow or mls), and then develop a super specific buy box, then just create custom filters with notifications where applicable, you can also use a VA to look through the various acquisition methods and send you a vetted list every day.