Purchase price: $56,500 Cash invested: $57,222 Clean and cute 3 bedroom 1.5 bath 936 square foot single family home with nice finished basement and detached 2.5 car garage in nice neighborhood.

Purchase price: $55,000 Cash invested: $55,698 Nice and clean 4 bedroom 1 bath 1193 square foot home with hardwood floors, remodeled bathroom, eat in kitchen lovely finished basement in nice neighborhood and close to hospital.

Purchase price: $47,000 Cash invested: $47,697 3 Bedroom 1 Bath 1088 square foot Single Family Home Clean and Neat home with newer roof, new paint, bathroom, new kitchen floor and hardwood under new carpet.

I don't know what are you are looking at but around here you can estimate about $60-$80 per foot for public sewer and $80-$100 for public water. 

Sounds like you are starting the exciting adventure on the right foot.

I mean I run a $50M portfolio within 30 min of my office & I haven't personally stepped foot in any of them in over a year.

I’m a software engineer trying to get my foot into real estate investing.

Figure at least $200 a sq. foot for a completed home.  

I was able to get good carpet installed for $1.40 ish per foot.

I have followed it, read the forums, listened to to podcasts but its finally time for me to get my own foot in the door.