@Kelsey Herbst I've looked at Lancaster county and the surrounding 'towns'.

For now, in Fayetteville and the surrounding area.

The city has been making big investment into the infrastructure and greenways/trails.

I’d also consider surrounding counties (besides Franklin) such as Licking and Fairfield for appreciation long term vs. a 2-3 year hold.

Brandon Turner has a great book on creative Real Estate financing strategies: Investing in Real Estate with No (and Low) Money DownSurround yourself with those achieving what your goals are.It’s so important to surround yourself with mentors in the real estate business.

I'd love to hear your thoughts on the STR Market for Chattanooga and surrounding areas. 

I personally invest in Antwerp, have couple of single apartments, now trying to jump into multifamily deals in city and surroundings. 

A "good deal" might be too far from the highway or lack surrounding amenities that are appealing.

Providing more information about work completed probably helps most sellers because absent some sort of documentation on upgrades, or major work or accessibility to infrastructure, I'm going to assume that if it's an old building it has old plumbing and old electrical and submit an offer (or not) accordingly.

The initial training is a 12 week program where each new investor will be told to set up an infrastructure of a legal entity, business cards, phone numbers, web pages and miscellanea, to pretend to be a real estate investor, because all this, will not really make anybody a real estate investor.