Good conversation, but the driving force will really have to come from you. 

I like the fixer Jay Decima model, where he sells some of his assets on seller financing, avoiding the big cap gains hit, and creates mailbox money.That would be a conversation with a qualified financial planner.All the bestGino

To add to the conversation, YES, Ohio is a great market to invest in.

After a few conversations with Seller I was able to get the correct taxes. $12,141.00 annually6 of the 8 are vacant.

These stereotypes often dissolve within minutes of a real conversation.

Which brings the conversation to finances. $30k is probably barely enough to let you buy a flip if putting 20% down.   

The meetups are casual and conversational, and attendees range for new and curious to seasoned and advanced.

The original Idea was to convert the storage unit into a J-ADU, but since we don’t plan on being here after the garage conversions are done, the owner occupancy requirement for JADU will not be satisfied.

Conversely, if the data is contained within GIS, the tool won't be able to fetch & merge it.At present, the "tool" is just 800+ lines of code that I wrote.

I would ask your friend to have a conversation with the landlord about it.