Listing price is at 130k and agent mentioned that the seller has wiggle room to drop the price.

@Jeff Hineswhatever you end up doing i'd stay local. i know the markets you mentioned look tempting, but they have their own challenges - for example, the midwest housing stock is very old and often has severe deferred maintenance. 

This has a cost but nothing close to what you’d have to pay investors in a pool, which is something else you mentioned.

There are a number of meetups in Sacramento and we have been coordinating the dates among hosts so that there is no overlap - I run the West Sacramento Meetup that @Ben Howard mentioned (we gather every 4th Tuesday of the month).Here is a list of meetups that we're in collaboration with (they are all based on an abundance mindset that we have here on BP)- 1st Tuesday - REI Connect @ Roseville Meetup (reach out to @Nicole Masters)- 3rd Tuesday - Investor Mixer @ Crawdads on the River- 3rd Thursday - Folsom Out of Bounds (dates may shift a bit)- 3rd or 4th Wednesday - Real Estate Round Table (CH Cafe & Grill) - they recently relaunched and stabilizing the schedule- 4th Tuesday - West Sacramento Real Estate MeetupI'm working on putting together an easy to access list that Sacramento investors can refer to.

Have yet to see any of the posts mentioned, so they must have stopped years ago. 

Your profile mentions that you are an agent with rentals.You would want to see if you are able to claim real estate professional status.If you are able to claim real estate professional status, you can potentially offset the rental losses with your real estate agent income.Furthermore, TN does not have a state income tax allowing you to be more open with your options.Best of luck

They build on site.One thing you mention is construction costs. 

Hi Nick, as mentioned before if you put a greater deposit down, you could get a better rate as a result. 

Your second question is in line with what I mentioned above you need to test, test, and continue to test.

Think I was just tired when I posted that and after I posted I was thinking it was a waste of a post since it can’t be done anymore anyway.I think a good option was as Jay mentioned, to buy with cash and refinance later.