I've been browsing, really enjoying the forums!

Browsing around the google maps i see a decent amount of nice houses (with boats), average mobile homes , and a small number of apartments.

Their interface is clunky at best but they do the full credit, eviction, and criminal check and you can have the applicant pay for it directly rather than pulling a fee and paying yourself.Cozy.co also provides a screening service, but unless they have updated it they were missing one of the big 3 checks last I looked.

I have browsed the site and I am reading the book.

For example, I live in and have access to the Twin Cities MLS system (the MLS is what you can access, if licensed, to browse properties listed for sale, etc), so I have great coverage of active/pending/sold properties in the Twin Cities and surrounding areas.

Southern California newbie looking for cashflow, specifically in multifamily deals in the Midwest (I've been browsing Ohio, Missouri, Indiana, and Kansas).Although new, I feel drawn to multifamilies >5 units. 

We had a similar issue with a much older home & yours may also be an easy fix if you have it assessed correctly.The poorly fitted gutter/flashing interface on our upper roof (to the right of the galvanized stack we removed) finally let go & a very small finger sized hole let in the moisture.The fix could have been a simple bandaid but I decided to replace the 1987 roof instead. (24 square on a Sunday with 8 guys helping $5k).But it then required the 'surgical' removal of one section of moldy kitchen ceiling drywall.

www.rer.org is a lobbying group that directly interfaces with Washington on important Real Estate issues and concerns from financial to zoning to whatever else.  

Be sure to browse through the Learn section above it is loaded with great information. 

Thank you reply Curt :) I'm browsing through the site checking things out.