You might want to consider doing a house hack to help you qualify for more.

You will need a local attorney to close on a house.  

So I just rcvd a rental application from Zillow and the credit score is showing 714 which sounds good... BUT there have been 24 late payments with the last late payment made in Nov 2024 and  0 paid on time. There's a ...

That is a great place to start, as well as hitting some local real estate investor meetups so you can meet some other house hackers in person who have done what you want to do.

Before buying or renting in an unfamiliar neighborhood, you should check the following two sites: SpotCrime, AreaVibes,These sites provide valuable information, including Livability Scores, which cover aspects such as crime rates, employment, health, housing, schools, shopping, and more.well, anything can happen anywhere.

Housing sales price is way below national average being the median price for a single family home is 90k.

I looked into this at more than one occasion, because Milwaukee has such an old housing stock, everything is 60-120 years old.Most of the new apartments we see are 4 and 5 star developments with very high rents, this allows to offset the high cost of construction a little better.

Here's how to pin a house and the information it shows. 

I'm trying to Figure out how to make this potential deal work.Seller wants to sell but not right away because they still use the house for some income. 

Oh the pink and beige house with the tall concrete fence?").