Cheap housing only reduces the cost of other cheap housing. 

And up-front costs to deliver quality are not cheap. 

This is not "cheap" but I also think it might be worth it.

LTRs with long term conventional financing and standard management aren't really cash flowing anywhere right now. sure, there are lower cost markets that look better on paper, but there are costs associated with those supposedly cheap markets as well - deferred maintenance, more challenging tenant base, higher cost turnovers as a percentage of the rent.2. i wouldn't pick a random market thousands of miles away based solely on statistics or numbers. 

REI Game Changers is a beginner program that relies on cheap spray and pray list marketing.

its cheap  compared to what you get I found a strict foreclosure in Oregon that their site was on the only one tracking it and we made over 300k on that one deal. 

Even if a software is free or cheap, it's the time investment getting things set up and then tweaking it for the first few months that is the real "spend".

Do you want cheap, regardless of speed and communication? 

Save...it takes a lot more money than most new investors believe (don't drink the Kool-aid that you can get in cheap) and residing outside the US will be seen as a substantial risk to most lenders which will limit your financing options. 

The saving grace is that it was purchased cheap a long time ago and will still either cash flow or yield equity even after repair costs