One of the main issues is insurance companies NOT insuring many of these areas.

@Dave Meyer had an interesting episode on the BiggerPockets Real Estate Podcast about 3 main resources when it comes to investments: cash, time, and experience. 

Quote from @Zeona McIntyre: Hey @Blake Winiecki I imagine you live in Florida but I would reconsider investing the area for one main reason - climate change.

Hard money lenders have a good amount of flex when it comes to FICO score and typically the main issue that borrowers with low FICO's have is that their max loan size gets cut which doesn't seem to be an issue here.

.- The 203(k) will allow you to bid on properties that need repairs that won't qualify for a traditional mortgage => less competition => better purchase price.You will need to find a great local contractor you can trust to supply the required bids to qualify for the 203(k).- After closing, you can do some of the work yourself to save money, but the program doesn't allow you to pay yourself.You will want to buy a Class B property, maybe Class C+, in an area that seems to be improving.

I mainly was curious about what legal grounds we have in order to proceed, since the PMA doesn’t specifically state “agent won’t grant criminals unsupervised access to your vacant property”, I figured that was just given!

I'm seeing house hack, buy a primary and rent out the ADU on AirBnb or the ultimate house hack, owner lives in the tiny ADU and AirBnb both levels of the main house in San Francisco. 

North Linden, South of Main, Vassor Village, Woodland Park, MT Vernon, Milo-Grogan, Franklinton, Merrion Village, Hungarian Village, Southern Orchards, Driving Park, Olde Towne East, Franklin Park, King Lincoln, Old Oaks, Livingston Park are all but not limited to some areas in Columbus, Ohio I think will gentrify quickly and make for great long term buy and holds.This helps greatly.thanks!  

I believe I can do this with the upstairs rented out at $1,650 a month and $1,750 for the main floor unit. 3bed 2bath down and 3bed 1bath up.

There are networking opportunities with the group after these meetings as well but it seemed like mainly people in the program and not experienced capital raisers that are there by design (but I could be wrong).