@Tara Unruh one of the first things want to educate yourselves on is Property Classes.Recommend you first figure out the property Class you want to invest in, THEN figure out the corresponding location to invest in.If you apply Class A assumptions to a Class B or C purchase, your expectations won’t be met and it may be a financial disaster.So, when investing in areas they don’t really know, investors should research the different property Class submarkets.

Depending on what class (A, B, C) of property you are looking to build a portfolio with the price may lower but not by much. 

Focusing on B and C areas in Cleveland with their lower entry points and higher relative rents can help you find cash-flowing properties.

I’m putting the above modular home on a lot that needs a foundation with basement built for the house to be set on. anyone here ever had something like this done? Anyone knows any brick layers who specialize in this...

There's pockets all over the greater Tampa Bay Area that are B class and up but balancing that with a decent cap rate is going to be tricky unless you either have low cap rate expectations or are will to do value add to the property or being more creative such as using a short or midterm rental strategy or even room by room with padsplit.2) Verify as well the 1031 is going to allow "like for like" into a single family. 

My VRBO account manager got back with us today and let us know that the A/B testing of AI choosing photos ended this morning.

Reminds me a lot of what the banks are going through - the profitability is being squeezed out of A/B flips and LTRs, so investors are reaching for yield with deals that are not properly priced for the risk in my opinion.

Right, because B of A sells their loans to Fannie/Freddie which does not do 2 unit cash out in Texas there BofA does not have a product to sell you. 

LLC for property A, LLC for property B, etc.

Buy in a B or higher neighborhood that will hold and increase in value.