I've seen numerous posts on which City, State, Area, Region, etc. is best to invest in.

If you're inviting external investors to consider your deal, I would make sure I could answer the question of "is it legal to operate in the model that I am pitching?"

If it is sentimental to him, possibly offering to invite him to see the property when the rehab is complete may excite him more about the thought of selling. 

So they invite you to next one sometimes the keyword alerts aren't perfect for meetups

No one knows but assuming you have numerous units, not just a single SFH, positive cash flow and reserves being leveraged or not is relatively unimportant.

“We had interest from all over—numerous groups from New York and California,” said Finley Askin, associate director at SVN Chicago Commercial, the brokerage hired to sell the buildings.

@Jason Howell Hi Jason, I read once that you should come up with a specific numeric goal for a time frame (month, year, etc).

I'd start with reading the numerous posts from the past on this topic.

There's a Facebook group called Atlanta REI Meetup, let me see if I can get you invited to it.

Always do a title search, watch out for properties that have been TD numerous times and also filtered through large hedge funds, I recently encountered a nice 2.61 acre piece in a rural area I was going to buy from owner before it went back to the auction.