our market is in Columbus Ohio and we are currently doing infill as a strategy. single family home by right can be built on any infill lot in columbus but for multifamily this strategy becomes part of entitlements and rezoning. 

.- Recent example: we took a vacant property over and did our TakeOver video, then gave the owner a bid for around $10k to get it RentReady.

Your market is expensive, I wouldn't look for normal working class people as your target customers.

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@Sean Graham isn’t your example paying for another cost segregation, which will cost more than a 1031, just to break even on taxes?

I am a fellow investor also looking for my first property but I also have a contracting and property management company.

For example my market, there are about 1-2 REOs for every 1500 sales.

Is a HELOC a good idea for buying a property?

We don't allow any "deal-making" in the forums, which includes advertising your services or properties, looking for partners, etc.

The Birmingham market has been showing steady growth, with increasing demand for both single-family homes and multi-family properties.