We have grown accustomed to having roofs over our heads and I will not return to living in caves.

Joel, I see Canton is a two zip code town, about 25,000 and has grown 199% from 2000 to 2010. 38,000 median income and 197k average home price.

My best friend lives in Cambridge Grove in Huntersville and his property value has grown a sizable amount in just 2 years.

-From 2013-2017, we've found a sustainable growth rate, and we've grown to over 350 members today (and our other KPIs look good, including average tuition, churn rate, etc).This is a well liked, extremely well respected business that is profitable and sustainable.

We spent nearly $6,000 putting in a new sewer line, replacing the flooring, and taking out the tree that had grown through the sewer line.Everything was going good...for two months.

They are grown adults, right? 

I've been a Personal Trainer for the last 4 years, but i'm looking to retire soon once I've grown a respectable portfolio..

Hi @Ben McMillan it sounds like you have some experience here and opinions on which way to go already.In my opinion the BRRR (you state as buy, fix, rent, refi) model is a very good way to grown your rental portfolio 'fast' even though you have not had success so far (I would be curious to know what hasn't worked)Either way you look at it, you are doing this out of state since you have IN/OH as your target markets and live in Kentucky.

It was easy to do when the business was small and I was looking at every single thing but as we have grown there seems to be a creep in materials purchased for some properties.

Flooring, paint, light fixtures, looks like it has a wood stove which I would yank out (I'm also an insurance agency owner, I hate wood stoves ha) and replace with something else.