Purchase price: $97,500 Cash invested: $97,500 Beautiful Condo overlooking a 10 acre lake across the street from the Brandon Regional Hospital and minutes from downtown Tampa.

As some of the other commentators have mentioned you have to know your market and while all of Hawaii has a high cost for entry there are still opportunities to be found.I found a very specific market (C-, 2/1 condos, near major hospitals, pet friendly, low HOA) that I studied intensely and because of that specific focus knew a good deal when I saw it and could quickly get the ball rolling while others were still analyzing.Kauai is such a unique community that you will be faced with nuanced challenges but that also means you may find opportunities where others miss them if you know the market.Kauai is the most beautiful island in the state and has a great sense of community, if you want to move there do it and make real estate work for you, don't go about it the other way or you may be left with more properties but also more regret.

There are places near Modesto where you can but 200 acres of beautiful land with a lake front for something like $135,000 (if I am correct), and I have a friend who looked into buying the land, but the cost to bring in electric is insane and then you neeed to dig a well and install pumps, storage tanks and even 4 inch pipes for fire hydrants.

Myself, I have almost 3 decades in the housing industry professionally, I have performed at the highest level of skill, licensure and quality in literally every single aspect of real estate from point of raw land planning and development, building design, build, renovation, remediation, inspection, investing, contracts, negotiations, deal engineering etc etc, I am ridiculously over-the-top experienced and qualified and that is why clients go with myself AND my team, it's not my beautiful Shrek like smile, it's my beautiful brain and decades of knowledge and performance because they know any issue that could come up, I have probably dealt with it 18 times before if not 180 and I can solve it.

@Lauryn MeadowsLooks beautiful,And very resourceful using the non-profit to help with your renovation clean up cost.

Purchase price: $265,000 Cash invested: $25,000 Beautiful 1 floor 3b2b home that can cash flow about $500 after PITI.

That being said the beautiful part about owner financing is building a situation that best serves both parties.

I followed a  few on the market that had been so beautifully redone on the inside that they looked like a new build, but still took many months to finally sell.

In addition, you'll have up-close access to nature in your own backyard - providing you with beauty and inspiration just steps from your front door!

This lonely corner of the world is ripe for the picking after the current real estate hot spots dry out so lets get a leg up on them and make our small towns beautiful in the process.