The alternative -- setting up a system for finding off-market deals -- is riskier if you're just starting out and less likely to produce results without infrastructure and significant capital to feed it. 

You can also monitor sites such as hud home store which usually allows an opportunity for owner occupants to get first dibs on foreclosed single and multi family properties before investors do.

: ) Austin is a great candidate as the tech infrastructure is here.

I would also monitor the properties wholesalers are wholesaling.

The current tax base cannot sustain the maintenance cost of the infrastructure we have.

They're planning to build a walkable overpass over I-440, building new "Green" streets and stormwater infrastructure, a new street grid connecting more parts of the area together to allow more avenues of travel for pedestrians and vehicles, a proposal for a project called "The Midtown Ring," and much more.

That made me think that I was ready to Hire VA's without the proper infrastructure in place.

Norton is in the coalfields of the Appalachian mountains and since the city has been working on myriad of infrastructure and job building projects, I hope now is a good time to begin my investing story.If anyone has any helpful tips for investing in a low populated and poverty stricken area, I'm all ears (or eyes since this is a forum).

If you offer the "infrastructure" than you make the first step and people begin to recycle.  

"I'd put that in the same bin with "We need to spend money on infrastructure" braggadocio by politicians to get elected.In effect, it'll prob be like stimulus check for $1B OR got 10 years back - It'll go in the GenFund, and then 80% will go to PERS (aka the budget blackhole).That's the problem is they're a good idea but mostly are "lets cut a check" and don't audit effectiveness.