I'm sure people in both categories will talk about wild success going both routes, but my intuition was to the effect that it's much harder to find a 'deal' than it is to find someone who wants to list their house for top dollar on the MLS (while I certainly do not assume this is easy), but I only have so much time and money, trying to not only create a marketing budget but build systems around both of these businesses.

I feel like I'm trying to solve a problem without being given enough information to do anything but take a wild guess.

We cut it down and killed off all the wild grass and weeds.  

Keep your eyes and ears on high alert w this tenant, I have a feeling your in for a wild ride.

I currently use Smartbnb for messaging automation and leaving reviews, and I have found it to be wildly effective.

The estimates, one from a guy we've used before and another local contractor, are in the 200-300k range.Those estimates sound wildly inflated to me based on quite a bit of research I've done online.

I know there used to be a group that meets the first Tuesday of every month at the Buffalo Wild Wings in Broken Arrow, but not sure if that's still meeting as I haven't been in a few months. 

Great question.I have been wildly successful using mailers to target properties for over a decade.

We're hoping that we can manage to get tenants to turn over in the summer, where we can spend a couple of weeks down in DC combining a little vacation in the place with fixing things up and finding a new tenant).Of course I made some mistakes already, too, but I think I'll get away with them this time...So after getting my feet wet, I've been reading about REI, and we do have cash / equity (our primary home is just about paid off) to stuff with, so now I'm considering to get into it in a non-accidental way, and it seems more prudent to look at our local area (NH seacost), but it turns out I have little idea about the purchase/rental market here, and it doesn't seem all that easy to find out (in NoVA, at least, there's a very active market, while here prices seem to fluctuate wildly for no obvious (to me) reason.

I have no idea what that house you mention would rent for but I'll take a wild *** guess and say something like $7,000 or $8,000...maybe $10,000?