I can tell you that Rock County, WI is as strong as any market I have seen.

With Castle Rock, we routinely buy loans at a deep discount, but we are buying the loans that lenders are wanting to give rid of.

For your first project, use a General Contractor, who has their own subs and who will deal with all that minutia for you, then follow them around, ask lots of questions and learn.Whatever you do, have a rock-solid contract that specifies money for performance and have them deal with materials and the haul-away and bid the job including both labor and materials broken out. 

I had an appraisal come in low (in this market) pre-fire (2016) when prices were (in my opinion) rock bottom.

@Phillip DavisThere were so many positives from the conference... pre-event mixer, pre-registration, swag (I don't know what it is about the tshirt but I rock mine all the time), networking sessions were great - (best part by far!)

We already have a rock star agent for this and the property will likely be selling for roughly of 1.6 mil.

$40k is rock bottom and will probably be inadequate if any infrastructure work needs to be done.

*Unrelated, Round Rock is my favorite place in Tx because of Salt Lick BBQ! 

hope you meet some awesome rock star investor/wholesalers while you are here! 

Im putting the Rock back in Rockville.