Small towns like Adamstown and Point of Rocks area are slowly up and coming so i could see doing SFH rentals there or flipping distressed properties.MD doesnt have many multi family homes with tris or quads and even a lot of the duplexes in Frederick are all sold as single units so you arent even often buying the pair, so MD doesn't offer that aspect of buy and hold rentalsthere are a lot of people investing in MD, so i dont doubt  you can carve out a little piece of the market for yourself and make money i just think our market is very different than other markets.its not uncommon for people to drive 1+hr one way every day to work in the MD area and this is reflected in the housing situation as well. you can have people living in frederick, working off of 495. or even people living out of point of rocks area or along the potomac and taking the MARC train to work every day. 

If the unit is vacant, I book a pair of showings every 15 minutes. 

Thinking about hiring a consulting firm/person to review our P&L's, Insurance Plans, Taxes, maybe even walk the buildings and point out where we could be saving money and where we are spending too much.We self manage, so it would be great to get another pair of eyes on our operation.Any one here done something like that?

They find someone who wants to sell, and pair them up with someone who wants to buy.  

I like the idea of keeping them non-stacked in the kitchen, get a smaller pair, and put a countertop over it.

If these contractors could establish an online presence and build out their network, they would be able to reach more investors (like the ones on BP) looking for their services.It is very difficult for most people, especially investors to pair up with good contractors because of the inability of most to market themselves properly.

"Cash is King" is exactly right.I just started utilizing foreclosure.com pairing that with skip tracing to contact owners and see if I can get ahead of it, but zero response back as of yet.

The rule of thumb would be whichever state has the strongest liability protection paired with the least fees. 

Currently we're considering institutional lending and/or private money paired with various state/local grants.

Or 320.00 for a nice pair of delta toilets , you can install with no tools.