Hi Bigger Pockets! 

It’s more conservative, the city itself is established, older neighborhoods, better city amenities (museums, arts/music etc), more pro sports, more hills, bigger river, has a streetcar, arguably better nightlife overall.

Good question - when Bigger Pockets leads reach out to us via out of state, we first define your specific goal with the BRRRR and talk through specific cities/areas that could lend itself to accomplishing that goal.

Hi Lee,Welcome to bigger pocket.

.## Financing OptionsFor Hard Money and Private Lender financing, it's crucial to build relationships with local lenders.

You can attend all the REIAs and read all the books and sign up for all the conferences, and spend all the money, and you are will never really know you can do it until you do.Over 20 years in real estate in various forms and roles, action will beat out intelligence or education or even network 100% of the time.  

@Joshua Simmons Welcome to Bigger Pockets! 

Our first event may be geared toward beginners but I’d like to have discussions at all levels & all different topics.It will only be 40 minutes long max, because that’s what my Zoom account is set up for.See our announcement on Bigger Pockets here:https://www.biggerpockets.com/...I’ll be discussing some of the most common questions people have about real estate.

I think having a balanced budget would be ideal where you allocate money into buying another property and money set aside for renovations.

I have seen some exceptions with bigger lenders.