Nowadays many people aren't looking for a fix me up as a first house, they're work load and if kids are involved is too much to deal with already.

Well, Mike, we would expect no less from a son of yours :-)........but for most kids we know it is pretty useless nowadays.

This is a situation that is becoming very common nowadays.

We travel the country, but I guess I still could have said live.Either way, I get to see all these different locations with all these great opportunities and am just trying to gather as much information as possible for the day I can start offering and negotiating.I could have called the credit union, of course, but the questions that arise give me an opportunity to get involved in the BiggerPockets community. thankfully this is something that is much easier nowadays (vs 20 years ago) with nationwide private lenders lending with national platforms vs. being stuck with only local options!

As a side note: “Creative financing” to me is such an overused term nowadays - someone recently called a DSCR loan creative financing or seller financing on normal terms - also not creative.

Its members can now afford to buy or rent nice beach properties, which is great because prices and rental rates are no longer dependent on a booming American economy (plus, tourists nowadays come pretty much from all over the world all year long).The reality is that Mexico was already in a quasi recession right before Covid hit and real estate prices has been going up all along, while in the past a recession in the US would have caused prices to crater.

Nowadays it’s hard to find things that cash flow well due to housing prices and interest rates.

Nowadays, remote workers, new divorcees, those displaced by a remodel ... all are potential tenants for your medium term rental, so I wouldn't put yourself in a box by only being close to a hospital.Also, you might check out some of Erin Spradlin's books on the midterm space -- Guide to Midterm Rentals and My First Rental Property Workbook, to name two. 

Compare that to nowadays where you can get in with down payment assistance and bring almost nothing to the table.

They are the people you see working on and around the large steel erections.