If you have one of those cool shower inserts like you see at Home Depot all is great and cheap, if you have tile and cultured marble and the like the price skyrockets quickly.

Nice folks, fairly major airport, culture.

This approach tends to appeal to computer programmers, a new segment of the freshly affluent in our society who have made plenty of money out of math and are already half-deluded by their success in computers into believing that equations applied to concrete, earth, wood, steel, human failings, weather, and the inexorable passage of time will yield a golden system that anyone can use to become fabulously wealthy out of land and the structures built on it.Regard the mathletes and their beliefs with a healthy dose of skepticism, drill down past all the fascination to what these numbers are supposed to offer you in the way of insight, and you'll be fine.

Wealth is not measured “just” in $, is it worth that $ to give up that time. 

It's a small expensive private school, the parents are usually upper middle class to wealthy. 

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.

I think if most flippers are honest (10-years later looking back), they'd prefer to still own those homes as cash-flow positive rentals.I don't remember where I heard it (so I'll attribute it to MLK or Abraham Lincoln, maybe Warren Buffet) - "You can get rich flipping houses, but you get wealthy keeping them as rentals".

Passed in 1982, the law prohibits tenants living illegally in former commercial or factory buildings to be evicted.Apparently, the intent of the law was to help struggling artists (not uber-wealthy celebs) living in Manhattan studios from getting tossed out for not paying rent.