Need I mention gambling is legal in Ohio.

It's in a city (outside the USA in Mexico) that has seen major growth the last 3-5 years and has great prospects to continue growing thanks to nearshoring and high cost of living across the border in the USA.I spoke to an architect and it looks like a 4-unit building can be built on there.

Do I gamble my last dime on a single-family cash cow, or do I roll the dice on a flip and hope Lady Luck is on my side?

In Louisville, Harry Borders of Borders & Borders is the go-to.

The Data base was basically the I 5 corridor from the California Oregon Border to Just South of Tacoma Washington between the coast range and the Cascade range.. we had about 11k parcels identified and that was our list.. we sent some mailers but it was almost all telephone work.. once we had the data base we used the reverse directory to find the phone numbers now keep in mind this is pre Cell phone..

Maybe some of us Bismarck folk can get a caravan going to Minot like those peeps from guatamala go to the border!

If you really want the property and don't mind a small gamble put down an amount of earnest money that you will not be upset to lose and that if you were in the seller's shoes would make you feel OK about taking the property off the market for 60 days and make it non-refundable to be conveyed to Seller upon offer acceptance. 

I had a few appraisals come back from Akron/Clv markets and had the appraiser comment that it is a "down market".If you are targeting the 50k purchases with the 20k rehab and then hopping to refi out afterward you are taking a gamble because if you do not get the 100k value after the rehab you can get stuck in the project or be forced to take a mortgage with a terrible rate.Keep your purchases 80k and up and try to make sure your project costs are over 100k on everything so you can be pretty confident that you'll get the 100k value afterward.

However, it’s a gamble.

I came across this lot in Oregon that I really liked and borders BLM land.