The small success I have had so far is nothing to the potential that I know I can achieve in this tight knit community and I attribute all of it to BP and the amazing members I have met so far.

Kind of like your aunt that does knitting.

I would do this deal all day with collecting at least 2 months of security deposit in case things go south.They seem to be a very tight-knitted family.

I second @Samuel Eddinger on this - we have a very tight-knit community with CTREIA and networking locally will be worth its weight when just starting out your investing journey.

Wilmington is a very close-knit community, especially for a city of this size.

Some are very laid back and dont knit pick while others notice everything.

It's not like knitting a Volkswagen out of a pile of steel wool, but this forum just isn't a good place to take anecdotal advice to the bank for something like this. 

There are a lot of different pockets of investors and investor friendly realtors- However, because it is a tight knit circle of investors.

LV has it's challenges, and while there are opportunities, I could tell you that gentrification will be very hard to pull off because there is a very tight knit community there.

Wichita is a place of around 500k people and I think there is a small tight knit Argentinian /Central/S American community that would be willing to help someone new become acclimated and learn the ropes.Your biggest hurdle will be immigration and you should start there...get that figured out and through networking and hard work you can likely figure out the rest.