As a MF agent who spends a large amount of time calling apartment owners (or rather, numbers purporting to be apartment owners), please believe me that reaching out to random run down buildings owners is unlikely to get you any deals.

@Nicholas Nakamurain order to be successful, you will need to build a network on the ground in Ohio with people you know and trust. buying a random property on the MLS in unknown condition based on other people looking at it, and putting it under management with people you have never met, will not work, and you will lose money.https://www.biggerpockets.com/forums/963/topics/1195280-expe...https://www.biggerpockets.com/forums/48/topics/1137397-balti...so - what's your plan? 

Instead of piecing together information from random online sources, you get a cohesive learning experience.4.

For example, the 2nd to last photo of a random wall and floor with part of open door; what is that supposed to be telling?

i think, in their defense, if you find BP as a new investor, sometimes you start at the beginning - the earlier podcasts, the webinars where Brandon looks at a random duplex on Zillow and it "cash flows" $250 per unit every time. 

After a cleaner starts randomly trying to bill me extra they usually don’t last very much longer before they make some excuse to quit or ask a fee “after working” that I don’t pay and then we mutually part ways. 

if you buy a random property in a neighborhood you've never been to and turn it over to people you don't know you'll just lose money.not trying to be negative, trying to protect you and your hard earned cash.

so, you're maxing out debt service which makes it tougher to cash flow.with that said, no matter the purchase strategy, you should always make sure you're using actual numbers, and not random assumptions.for example - some people will throw out '10% for capex.' 

@Jack Cottrelli get nervous when new investors buy random properties out of state.this is below the median price in KC, so i am assuming it may be in a more challenging neighborhood.  

I remember spending entire weekends crunching numbers, gathering receipts from random shoeboxes and backtracking through countless transactions in my bank account.