From Bing, to Elmira/Corning, to Alfred, Olean, and Jamestown we are truly lucky.

I rehabbed one many years ago and left the original asbestos siding in place but did replace the cracked and broken tiles with the newer cement fiber shingles. 

In fact, I am sure that "your reality" offers far more evidence that proves true than "my reality" (most or alot of people do fail in real estate), but to the select few out their that realize that this is not our practice life, and cannot wait around for 45 years till retirement, I would highly encourage you to start following your real estate dreams today.Yes there is a decent learning curve to real estate, and market conditions do change, but a good investor changes with the seasons, just as no farmer plants his corn in the winter, you need to adjust your investment ideas to meet your market conditions.

As Brian said, the Columbus guys will peddle their wares to you on here hard and heavy (they already have started, it seems), as they seem to equate population growth [driven largely by annexation literally all the way out to corn fields] as the end all be all and ignore legitimately important things such as per capita GDP, or a comprehensive view of the full MSA.

I would love to go the fiber glass route I just don't know the exert of how good or poor of a job it will do.

My understanding is that rent income is higher on farmland (particularly corn) than on pasture land for grazing cattle.

Unfinished alpaca fiber (it's hair you shear off) goes for about $2-$5 per ounce, and once it is finished (cleaning, spinning, etc.) it can easily cost $10 or more per oz.Alpacas generally don't need much land or fencing requirements and seem to be fairly easy to care for.Here is a good website about general info: http://www.alpacainfo.com/mediacenter/faq.htmlhttp://www.ilovealpacas.com/investment.shtmlThere is a lot of more in-depth financial info on Google (type in "alpaca" or "alpaca farm").Hope that helped some!!

One of my biggest problems is some of my properties still don't have fiber or high speed internet and our only option is satellite.

I removed ‘upstate’ and put in Ithaca, Watkins Glen and Corning. 

I had one situation where the paint was only stuck to the top of the fibers.