Concentrate first on getting your career/employment on track, part time employment is totally unreliable and will make getting financing almost impossible.You need to make way more money than you presently earn.

Concentrate on income production.It is recommended that you have a website that gets you more leads/customers and has links on other sites.  

I do not know your area buy in my area landscaping is not the highest paying job so I would advise you concentrate on increasing your job security and income to allow you to save more.

I'd rather invest in a concentrated area in Michigan.

I still work full time as a commercial property manager (VP of the company now) but I still want to get out of this at some point and concentrate full time on investments.

Right now I'm in a VA program that kind of limits my job opportunites (long explanation) so, as of right now I am just going to concentrate on getting my degree.

My primary experience in Ohio is in zip 45403 and zip 45405 with all my property concentrated in one small area that I have come to know very well.I see investors from out of state come into Dayton and spend $30,000 on properties that should sell for well under that but because the market they are use to is much higher they believe they are getting a buy.The 2% rule works well in much of the Ohio Cities because investors need to be compensated for the risk of investing their capital in these areas.Best of luck, I look forward to hearing about your success in Clevland

Never heard of BiggerPockets until just a few days ago.I'm aged 27, 28 in November, and am a four year college graduate with a Finance concentration.

High crime has a LOT to do with absentee landlords and the concentration of lower income rental units in an area.

You want an area with strong cash sales and low days on the market.Build your buyers' list for the areas that you want to concentrate in.Start looking for properties matching your buyers' criteria.Analyze, negotiate and put under contract (between you and the seller - A to B transaction)Deliver A to B contract to the title company with earnest money (tell the title company to open escrow but don't quite order title yet)Now market to your buyers' list (your goal is to have a strong buyers' list, where 90% of your properties will sell to your list, not social media, craigslist, other wholesalers, etc. - this is crucial)Write a contract with your buyer (B to C transaction - deliver to title company - order title work)Proceed to closingYour first concern is to put the property under contract with the seller (A to B.)