The company who currently owns it started the process by re-doing the front staircase (approx. 20ft wide concrete entrance- looks spectacular), installing a new roof, and purchasing all new windows and installing maybe 10 of them.

Also be aware that your spectacular ROI numbers are heavily influenced by a no money down loan.

You can see this has been happening over the last few decades with the funds rate for close to a decade at 0% and the effects not quite being spectacular within the economy. 

Depends on your goals, really.Miami can be spectacular from an appreciation perspective.  

They have to be spectacular deals, special deals, awesome deals, super-duper deals.An awful lot of guru training seminars tell you that the way to get into real estate investing is wholesaling.

With that said, Punta Gorda does not necessarily have a "beach" because the few I know of in the area are man made due to the rough coastline there as well.

Many wholesalers use the "I buy properties with cash" tagline, and have never owned a property in their lives, let alone bought one with cash, and it can backfire spectacularly, especially if you don't know the business inside and out.

It will also give you a much better chance of rising from the ashes, if a deal goes spectacularly bad. 

I spent the summer in Norway a couple of years ago and thought it was an absolutely spectacular country!  

We live in West Virginia and pools are "fairly" rare, and this house is going to be spectacular when the rehab is done.