I am really trying to narrow down what needs change and if we have to change our strategy about this property.

Other than that, just keep networking here with other investors as that will help you grow your knowledge and narrow down areas of interest for investing.John

I'd absolutely focus on quality over quantity here.My recommendation is to be diligent and narrow down your research of where based off why, let go of the regret & resentment and put some actionable forces into getting your first REI and doing what it takes to get to a 2nd without any compromise.

Renting in these areas with a roommate or two will likely be less expensive than PITI in the 'less fun' suburbs.If you do decide buying when you move down here, I'd take a few trips and spend a week or so down here to help narrow the search.

they are buying the assets and closing.. and the big ones are all licensed.. so you can have an employee work for you in a very narrow scope.. but why u would want to do this is weird.. there is no real money in it and over time your not building a career your just wasting time. trying to figure out how to stay on the fringe.

If you had to narrow or expand criteria to come up with the 100k comps.

Playing around with filters should help me narrow down rather quickly till city level, after that would be more local resource based play and leveraging ones network.Keen to read more on this.

This will narrow your shopping area then you can hunt for the deals. 

I am still doing some market research to narrow down my location and am therefore looking for any insight be it advice or warning, I'm open to it all.

This guide will walk you through the steps of conducting your search so you can narrow it down to your top three choices.