Also very friendly and helpful.  

Years ago, a friend of mine took on a similar challenge in an older neighborhood near Chicago..he opened up the top floor to create a master suite that felt less like a converted attic and more like a boutique hotel room.

Scranton area seems to be a lot more landlord friendly than New York is, and the numbers seem better as well, Section 8 seems appealing for the guaranteed income but I will definitely take that information under consideration as I’m looking to invest in the area. 

I have to decide if im going to use a new injection of capital from the sale of my primary residence to:1) Hold in treasury bills at 4.5 percent until I find another property to purchase2) Pay off one of two existing mortgages, one at 3.75 percent and another at 4.5 percent3) Just find something to buy that beats either of those percentages on paper and be done with it4) Possibly loan out some hard money/broker it to a friend to allocateIts never an easy decision, but its a good problem to have.

Make small talk, learn about them, show you are truly interested in them as a friend.

You have a long great career on FOX and friends.

What you're doing there is making friends, and you make a lot of friends this way.

Try Ethan Whitley with Crye-Leike Realtors, he is good friend and does alot of commercial in the area.

A friend of my wife’s brother in Maui has a 5th generation cork and cattle farm near Gibraltar, Spain.  

Another friend who invests heavily in Phoenix shared a story about her first deal there..she jumped too quickly into a duplex without adding a little cushion for those first-year capital improvements.