That will probably be your best bet, to buy a fixer and get it cleaned up and then rent it out.Best wishes and good luck with your endeavors.  

Purchase price: $295,000 Cash invested: $50,000 Single fam home, desirable neighborhood.

Let's say you spent a month on the initial preparation: cleaning, painting, shopping for furnishings, assembling IKEA furniture and so on.

Hey Everyone,As many of you know, Pittsburgh is a unique market with a lot of opportunities in neighborhoods where properties can still be purchased for less than $100K.

They don't communicate well, don't take responsibility for their actions, do not clean or maintain homes well, and will shaft you when it's time to leave.Other than that, it's a pretty good system.

Disclosure: Previous, current and future purchaser of Matt Scott's services.I have personally used Matt Scott and Incite Venture Capital to create my fixed income fund.

Whenever I show the property, I try to make it as clean and organized as possible so that it looks appealing to whoever is interested.

Clean-up costs- make sure you have sufficient coverage.D. 

Here’s MY general feeling; if a MHP isn’t TOH, or I can’t easily switch from POH to TOH, then I might as well purchase an apartment complex and have less problems.

Maybe an investor is flipping a lot of properties and you could offer to pick up and deliver materials to his crews, clean the work sites every night, bring his crew lunch, or whatever.Find a way to make yourself useful to them, and they will reciprocate.