If the street says East anything, I would not live there.As for shopping and chain restaurants, Peach St is the place to be (on the south end in Millcreek township that is).  

I'm not saying they need to live in a million dollar mansion, but something middle class and neat     Look at how they present themselves, are they somewhat clean cut and neat or are they toothless and chain smoking cigarettes?  

I think I should now start accumulating some extra cash for the rough times :)"I think I should now start accumulating some extra cash for the rough times :)"- Sandeep“Every decade or so, dark clouds will fill the economic skies, and they will briefly rain gold.

Many hours were wasted on a sales pitch to entice into continued education that cost $41,297 for Diamond Enrollment, $26,297 for Platinum Enrollment, and $21,297 for Gold enrollment".The upshot is, you DON'T need to spend thousands on discovering so-called secrets of real estate success (before you even find a deal)!

Hit the podcasts - they're gold.

i bought one similar to this , we took out six 30 yd dumpsters of crapp , taxes papers from 1950's , birthday cards from 1978 ...... i unfortunately found a gold coin the first or second day , so i wouldn't let my partner throw anything out without looking , lol .

The podcasts are gold if you haven't checked them out yet.

The best way I would say is go out there and start looking at homes, lots of homes ( I didn't mean 50 or 100 before you grab your first :-) ) , that will help you to start seeing the gold behind. 

@David Moore, another David on the chain has sent a few folks a spreadsheet.  

--by the time escrow closed, I was a landlord.imho, Robinson handles the human side of landlording well (along with technical and legal issues), while Nolo is the gold standard for in-depth, up-to-date legal stuff.Meanwhile, do get your head examined.