This is one reason so many of us dislike gurus so much...perhaps the most important part of doing this is becoming accustomed to failing and getting up again, to figuring out anything even slightly complicated for yourself."

I've been procrastinating on doing this post, despite spending many hours reading through the site and listening to podcasts 1 through 45 as of today, constantly given the constant encouragement from Josh and Brandon that is essential to jump right in..

Search the site, there's plenty of forum posts on that exact topic.

They then come on different sites and complain and complain about their experiences.

You can live in a great area for investment and still invest far from home if you want to leverage others.As far as where to pick, we use sites like Census.gov, Bestplaces.com, deptofnumbers.com to compile some data on quality cities. 

@Tito Huynh First off, way to go on setting up a lead propeller site and getting some leads!

I hope this helps, and if you have further questions, please feel free to PM me or others on this site.

What are some good sites for determining value like this?

To just be a middleman and buy a house for $50,000 and say, “Here it is for $60,000,” and not have any value added in there, it becomes a little complicated.

Great that you joined the site!