My brother owns a landscaping company a few hours out of town so we did a complete overhaul of the backyard area.

I have no idea how big your town is.

The cost of changing a light bulb is quite a bit more when you factor in travel time to get across town, vehicle cost, a qualified person on payroll with benefits, overhead cost for the office to deploy that person.

People have keyword alerts set up, and then someone arrives and pitches their town, which then triggers a lot of other keyword alerts to be triggered.

You can also check meetup.com or search Facebook for real estate investment groups, clubs, or meetings in your area.I'm in a small town where there are very few investors.

.- Watch out for residential tax exemptions, and be aware of which towns / cities have them.

Feel I have backed myself into a more than full time job and in my baby rural town feel this might be the only way to keep this profitable.   

A small multi unit in a decent part of town that produces good cash flow.

I used F&M Bank there in the same town to give me the full purchase price of 325k.

My concern with a house is finding the balance between acquisition price and appeal in a beach town.