Check out this thread on Norada Capital Management here on Bigger Pockets where out of the blue this big syndication suspended payments to all it's (many) members:https://www.biggerpockets.com/forums/960/topics/1196567-nora...  

Here was my experience house hacking in my 20's as well: https://www.biggerpockets.com/forums/922/topics/1133476-hous...Cash reserves have saved me multiple times, but my properties were both NOT renovated. 

We are getting off topic.

Some other things to consider with investing in Cleveland are these two topics... 

May be more if you wanna search. https://www.biggerpockets.com/topics/386835

There are literally thousands of discussions on this topic if you care to research them.

Or at least the on-going conversations and topics that were brought up.Happy Investing All!

outcomes are on you, the investor.you may want to review these threads to see what others experiences were.https://www.biggerpockets.com/forums/48/topics/1137397-balti...https://www.biggerpockets.com/forums/12/topics/1215726-break...

For a bird's eye view of end-of-year tax planning, read this old post:https://www.biggerpockets.com/forums/51/topics/1007488-debun...

We are having a hard time coming to a consensus of how to identify, underwrite, and basically take the jump. ( we don't want to screw it up lol) I've searched this topic on the forums but figured someone could give some insights given our situation.