You can get eaten alive in the Baltimore market by people selling you Class D properties "dressed up" as Class B.

Buy and Hold investing is a great avenue to begin with as most people live their lives off of residual income. 

Wholly agree, we're trying to help people.

Do you guys ever take the risk of buying a foreclosure at sheriff sale with the previous owner still living in it? How do you calculate rehab cost given you can’t look inside?

I feel like my "circle of people" really needs an expansion and improvement and I want someone with more experience in the field I want to be in to really help me gain myself to success!

Buy not many people can do this and it requires very good book keeping.

@Danielle B when buying out of state you have to know the people you will be working with. 

Lots of people who have trailers don't own the property they are on and sell them.As for the owner of the land expecting tenants to do repairs-there shouldn't be many repairs required to the land, just the trailer that is on it (which your grandmother owns and should be responsible for maintaining). 

They make their money off of real estate agents, but real estate agents are the worst people to make money off because they are highly unreliable and in and out of the business when the market changes.Their target should be the consumer with higher levels that they can subscribe too for data, since Zillow is linked to the MLS now which makes their data somewhere more reliable.

They require all cash to buy so the people there have money.