We're seeing pricing vary drastically even just going 20 miles south of the city just because everyone is so "fat and happy" with work.

Hi Justin, I have a property under contract in Gary, IN..would love to talk with you about it..please contact me..Thanks, Gene

Trim away as much fat as possible (like trading down in automobile if at all possible), stop dumping money into the 401k for a while, and try combining your desires to buy your own place and invest in real estate by "house hacking," where you live in one of the units of a multiplex while renting the others.

What could make a deadbeat hillbilly happier that sitting on their fat butt; smoking a cigarette; working on a case of Bud; all of the while watching their 120 inch big screen TV - ALL PAID FOR BY THE TAXPAYERS?

Solution:oStop dipping your toe in the water and go ALL IN on one marketing channel (in case you are wondering, Direct Mail is my bread and butter when it comes to finding motivated sellers).oMake one channel Fat, Healthy and Producing Leads first.

We can be fat, skinny, short, tall, multitude of skin colors and nationalities, and have all kinds of things against us and yet still succeed.

Or just go for the fat cash flow, which one can verify with a simple spreadsheet formula can work out comparably well.

Pigs get fat and hogs get slaughtered. $190-195K looks to be the range IMHO. 

:Starting in 2011 when DH went on sabbatical from his horrible day job, I started to read this forum, fat wallet's property forum, the MMM real estate forum and I even bought a couple of property investing books. 

Quote from @Dan Heuschele: Quote from @Gene Hacker: I am not sure if it will pass but California is trying to pass a 15% STR tax.