That being said, I have no experience in real estate outside of the articles and videos I've read and watched from BiggerPockets.

You can A spend hours and hours on the web watching hour and a half long videos, be clueless of where to go, get sold a training that costs 5k plus (for information that you can learn on the web for free if you look hard enough, bigger pockets,crinoline, youtube, google, reitipster, ..the list goes on forever.

People will be willing to accept significantly longer commutes, because they can sleep, watch TV or work during the commute.

I rent out an apt/condo, I rent out the rooms.Utilities are included with the rent..When doing this it's important to put on lease your utility Caps and to be clear.For example for water my cap is $50 anything above it gets divided by 4 (each tenant)What I notice is very important to these tenants is high speed internet they typically don't even watch Cable TV.

I might also like that there are a lot of people around who fear God is watching or I'd probably prefer the woods but I got a cheap house in a better area that I can afford.  

During the crash, it was so frustrating to watch people let their current home go back to the bank, while they moved all of their cars, boats, motorcycles, and giant TV's to a new cheaper home.

Also, watch CL for estate sales.You'll definitely have to work harder initially.

After years of being in the buy and hold side of real estate investing, I finally was a genuine 'Wholesaler"It happened after years of reading about it, watching the video's  and then going back to read again with the same question, reflecting my fear and confusion of "what is it again to be a 'wholesaler?"

She then confided in me that she watches her grand-daughter and her daughter insist on paying her $1000 a month.

Go to puebloriverwalk.com and watch the videos.