The floors are actually a nice porcelain wood tile that I ran throughout the entire house.

I ran the comps.

Nice folks, fairly major airport, culture.

I ran into a deal that seemed to make sense for me and for my Solo 401k. 

It was just a book I ran across at the public library in my hometown in 1993.I read that book cover-to-cover.

@Josh Ryden Great idea - in fact, his BK attorney just called me for an update and I ran this by her.  

I ran across a post on investing he put up on a local fishing forum we are both on.  

The culture is obsessed with realestate.

With 130 municipalities just in Allegheny County that are all mostly different in terms in culture and folks living there, not to mention the 90 neighborhoods within one of those municipalities (City of Pittsburgh) I think it would be nuts to be an out of state investor investing here, but hey that's just me.I'm sure many other midwestern cities are very much the same in terms of having varying neighborhoods

BiggerPockets was thought up for someone like you, with your needs.In the culture I was raised in, there is a very old tradition to do absolutely nothing, make no major life decisions, until 40 days after a loss.