Educate yourself on RE fundamentals in the meantime.3) Once the profits are made you can invest in real estate AND continue making profits in your business.Best of luck!

Let me ask you these fundamental questions before going further. 

There is a fundamental question: If you don't have time to do it right the first time, when will you have time to do it over again ??

Screw the cycle, buy on fundamentals. 

Currently I would like to grow my portfolio and begin house flipping.A few steps I have taken are •Joined Meetup for Real Estate events •Spoken to my mortgage lender regarding purchasing the investment property•Watched tons of Bigger Pockets Podcasts•Currently house hacking •Read Rich Dad Poor Dad •Enrolled in Udemy~Fundamentals of Analyzing Real Estate Investments ~Real Estate Investing: LEarn to Fix & Flip , Step by Step!

was it well received as a fundamental strategy?

Dmitriy, I do appreciate that you took the time to share the fundamentals. 

In conclusion, LVT seeks to cure a fundamental injustice.

It helps me stay focused on the fundamentals.

On a fundamental level, there is a reason a place has low prices.in my experience, its generally the people with the good jobs who find a way to stay and the people with the crappy jobs who find it necessary or worth it to seek lower cost of living.Of course, there is anecdotal evidence of everything, but take a look at the demographics of the people leaving Illinois vs the people coming....and in particular, the people who leave for Indiana and Wisconsin.Hammond and the like will always have a solid middle to lower middle class base which is a money maker for certain types of property.But I think the odds are long for the decrepit mansions of hammond being the next hot market.