@Helena Brim yup, sure did.

Longview and Kelso can be great places to invest, but property values can vary widely (based mostly on neighborhood and condition), so understand what you are buying and what it will be worth once it is fixed up.

BP is a great place with a wide variety of resources available.

I am delivering another fridge to one of my unit today, a $1,700 double-wide, that I got scratch & dent for $850.

Call a title company and ask for their customer service department and ask the CS rep for a list of sales in the last six months in the same complex (important-sales in other complexes might not be good comps because homeowners dues van vary widely).

It is quite possible to get properties that meet the 2% rule and 70% rule by a pretty wide margin.

It's pretty easy to install if your room is less than 12' wide in one dimension since you won't have to seam it.

There is a really good REI club there in Pensacola, called PIG (Pensacola Investors Group) They can be found on Meetup.com, great place to network and glean information and knowledge from a wide variety and types of investors.

I live in the Los Angeles area and there are a TON of different municipalities and neighborhoods here; it's the Land of Endless Sprawl.I doubt it's feasible to be an expert in all neighborhoods in LA, but how wide of a net do I need to cast?

I know it's a long shot, but I am asking for a pretty wide range.