You have to be willing to sell your properties and access the equity to buy up. 

Depending on your long term goals I wholesale and use the assignments fees to buy free and clear properties and I use creative marketing to buy and keep in my portfolio. 

Investment Info:Townhouse buy & hold investment in Jacksonville.

Another option would be to find someone to buy it and do a lease option contract with you.

What I did get, was on a marketing email list that sells their other virtual products.

This is my first post on here and excited to share my real estate investing journey with the best partner in the world, my wife.. we are looking into buying our first investment property via hard money.

To answer your questions:-We’ve seen success with a wide variety of strategies; we have clients with buy-and-holds, house hacks, BRRRRs, and flips.

don't be afraid of better markets in ohio like columbus. depending on the capital allocation buying old houses and having to renovate is not the only way to drive value. build rent refinance repeat and build to rent are both very strong market drivers as well and you can traditionally get infill land in areas like columbus in much better locations than where you buy.

Where did you end up buying?

Buying, These fall into a couple of groups a.