Be careful as you are navigating different neighborhoods, some of them have specific overlays when it comes to population density that alters the lot size requirments, often at the detriment of the investors.

The percentage of credit utilization is one of the biggest components of the score.

It's worse than you think, though, because the building standards are absolutely horrific and the developer abandons the property the moment it can get away with it, and the common areas and structural components are not kept up by anyone. 

I think MO, IN & OH & AL are a great mix of all those components. 

Wholesaling is detrimental to the seller, so you can find yourself in hot water with the real estate commission.Second, ask your broker whether he or she will allow it. 

Every year that someone lives in your property, all the major components are degrading.

The real estate business really has 3 components to it: rehabbing/flipping, passive landlord, and property management.

but, I personally find it unsatisfying and frustrating to have someone start a thread about them investing in RE syndication and asking other investors experience only to find that they have started the same exact thread many times in the past AND  after my exposure to their post....and then to top it off they are not even really investors, nor are they really going at the topic from an investor mindset, but, rather have a purely 100% ulterior motive of promoting their own syndication....AND to add injury to insult, they are really horrible garbage investments.My opinion of most accredited investors, is that trust is a key component for them, when investing in Syndication. if the networking technique is disingenuous, it just comes off as corny-time-share-tactics-manipulative base level conduct that is unappealing, untrustworthy and wastes time.I will say that all your points of essentially "caveat emptor" regarding ones own filter for things anywhere on the internet(including BP)are true, but, the benefit of micro-social media- climates like Bigger Pockets is that you get the benefit of other like minded, maybe even I dare say "smarter than me" individuals, weeding out what is the inevitable dissent into Craiglistification of said micro climate...meaning that eventually if all the post, or some critical mass of the posts, become of the aforementioned disingenuous type, the benefits of the this type of forum become less evident or more cumbersome and timely to get value from, and maybe even have negative return on time-equity.....IMHO

If you follow these forums you will hear a lot about certain types of states being very tenant friendly to the detriment of the landlord.

The concern with hard money or a bridge loan is if we are unable to refinance into a conventional loan in 6 months because of lack of appraisal would be detrimental…but is that true?!