I stick around the SE MA and RI area myself just for convenience.

I have spoken to one of my tax buddies at my old firm and they have said that I would be ok recognizing gains from doing one or two flips a year as investment income and thus avoiding SE tax.

If you are looking for population and job growth, seek deals and sponsors in the SE, Texas or Phoenix.

While you can't use the same documents on different offerings, per se.  

In our case, the minimum was $750k.You do not have to sign on the loan per se, but you do have to be on title.

I have the connections to plenty of consultants (PE,SE,CE,GC,etc) but not so much to the subs (framer, conc. layers, plumbers, etc).

Any event in the area, per se a coffee meetup, workshop, seminar, etc. can be utilized to allow you to not only expand your network but fill in your bucket of opportunities for what is possible.Go out there and don't be shy to say hi, Wishing you the best of luck,Ran

Hi - I live in New York (originally from Ft.Lauderdale), and I am looking to buy a multi-family investment property back in SE Florida.

Talk to your bank, maybe they will do a se used loan for a few hundred/thousand dollars.Go buy a cheap car on payments and make them on time.No way you have a million dollars and don't know this basic info.

Generally any areas directly SE, East & NE of the airport.