Home prices are much cheaper out here in western mass and you would be able to get a better bang for your buck.

Also, Dormont is actually pretty average tax rate wise across Allegheny county. . . .so it's just kind of a Western PA things (and PA as a whole) to have garbage tax rates. 

Hello....We are looking to acquire buy and hold multi-family and single family rentals in western and southern Kentucky.

Henrico county is deceiving because its so big it has the hot western side, and the still-kind-of-far behind eastern side where only those willing to sacrifice quality for low rent would go.The rent demand and pricing can be determined with pretty high confidence here around Richmond, which should make it easy to structure the deal and know if it is good with accuracy.I've been studying an interesting small area where I see flip potential and have followed some recent wins there to see what their formula was.

So far I've only been able to get one contact from New Western, but I would like to diversify my network.

The custom for SFRs is still the same, the tenant usually gets the bills.Since I am not in the habit of letting my tenants screw me raw on a whim, I have to jump through hoops with every acquisition to get the sewage and garbage bills sent to me, "in care of" my tenant and explain I don't give a tinker's damn about the custom.It's just Western Pennsyltucky-don't-drink-the-water-stupid all around, and you have to be on top of it.

A good rule of thumb is the Western part of KC has higher values and appreciation, closer to the city and businesses.

@Matt Smith, Try Western Federal Credit Union (not to be confused with western union)western.orgBased out of SoCal but they started offices in Texas and I've been looking at some commercial options with them.

Originally posted by Account Closed:@Manny Fernandez, I'm from a smaller market, western Nebraska, but I would tell you not to get discouraged yet.

I know of a lot of property management companies in Western PA that are not properly licensed and registered and the commission is cracking down.