Although you'll need to increase that budget to get closer to Case Western but a $14 or $15 per hour job should be easy to grab quickly and get you setup for this mortgage fairly easily.

I am also a newbie aspiring investor in western Washington.

Most tenants in western wa are MTM.

I'd look at the edges around the Detroit Shoreway area, edges around Ohio City, Tremont; anything in Old Brooklyn - also anything close to University Circle (Cleveland Clinic, University Hospitals, Case Western - major cultural hub + employment center).  

They do property management on the south side as well as in the western suburbs. 

New member in the western burbs of Chicago.

I quickly learned Class C doesn't appreciate much in my medium size city Mid-Western market (pop. 162,000), but neither did the values ever crash. 

I invest in western PA (live here).

Does anyone know of any investor-friendly escrow companies or lawyers in Western Massachusetts?

. ;-) Plus, there are no $50k houses in Western Washington so you've heard stories from other parts of the country where the laws are different.