Mindset and goals are everything and when the numbers can lay the course you are gold!   

It lays out on a quarterly basis, capex budget and cash flow.

Did some rehab on an old kitchen in a Cape we bought.Cabinets $3900, Granite $1759, porcelein Tile .93 cents/sq ft.

She could just lay down her misguided head in a ghetto hovel or a country shack or a cardboard box in a back alley doubling as a public toilet for every wino stumbling by.

Just laying out what I see as the facts.)

For me...I live in SoCal but started investing in the Southeast because it's where I'm from and know the lay of the land and for the lower price point and the fact that these are municipals that are more landlord friendly (No rent control for one thing)2.

So Google “real estate meet ups Baltimore” , pick several and go network.In addition to defining your strategy/focus as Ned mentions above,  another action step is to lay out the steps you need to complete (preferably in priority order) to set yourself up for a faster ramp up in your area of focus.  

Also you want to deal with both an attorney and tile company that are familiar with those kinds of deals.

It is a carbon film that is applied under rugs or tile or wood flooring. 

They acknowledged that I had a perfect pymt record on other properties but it still had to be cleared by their “investigations unit”.  2 weeks later they finally turned it on.You might consider looking for properties that are just cosmetically inferior......e g lots of big flowery wallpaper, pink tiles in the bathroom, etc.