I highly suggest working with an investor friendly agent so you don't buy in the wrong locations.I like the west side of Cleveland.

I’m getting re-acquainted with the BP community after purchasing my first house hack in the Pittsburgh area, and would love to make some connections with other like-minded young professionals and investors in the area.And if there’s anyone out there who’s just getting started and looking to make the jump to buy their first property, I’d love to offer up advice, share my network of contractors in the area, and answer any questions that I can from my experience over the last 6 months!

good area to buy. would love to discuss if you are looking for financing options

I then did some wholesaling, land flipping, did some more buying and am now just doing lending to build up active income.

Jimmy  - Thank you for the input, definitely buy and hold.

Take your flip profits in CA, and buy with those profits for CF in the Midwest. 

if the note is currently in default and we can buy at at least a small discount, we may be able to restructure the note with no monthly payments - we would get paid all interest at closing when the property sells.  

As a CFA you probably know the old quote from Warren Buffett who said something like "buy what you know and understand". 

Sounds like this is a private money lender or a hard money lender.If you are getting funds from another source and relying on that to close, you should not put in the purchase agreement that you are buying with cash.

I mean, this house is barely 1000 sq ft, and I have to buy 1 million dollar liability in order to get an commercial umbrella insurance?