@Robert StephensonIf you have enough equity in your primary or rental you can get a HELOC or HELOAN and use the proceeds as a down payment to buy another rental.

A new member shouldn't be up sold the site's products when they are just asking for general advice from the forum; not what books to buy from BP. 

How many people hours at what pay, plus cost of buying lists, plus skip tracing, plus phone/texting charges, plus office overhead and so on and so on.Noobs think texting is cheap to free ;-) 

Columbus is going to be more of an appreciation play and cash flow margins will be tighter in the beginning. 

Your best route might be to buy a 2 to 4 unit property that you can live in and rent out the additional apartments.

@Josh Smith just like any rental property you buy, manage, rehab, etc. nobody cares as much about your bottom line as you do.

Once I get the homeowner to sign the assignment,  do you want to be the first option to review the numbers and possibly buy ?

What’s your biggest question about buying real estate in Germany?

What kind of margins are you getting?

I use Eric Kloth out of Redding and he is stuck with us for this and our future home buying needs.