That they wanted "Cheap" buys, not intelligent buy's, not data driven buys, not future casting buys, just "cheap". 

Focus on absentee owners and start with the ones who live the farthest away and only own one property in the area since they have the least use for the property.You can also drive for dollars, looking for anomalies of disrepair and then look them up in the tax records and use a site like Spokeo to do cheap skip tracing.

I moved to miami and it's tough to do here columbus land is cheap. lower than lenders even require our buyers have to come up with additional equity just to close the loan. not sure austin's economics but happy to look at a case study with you to see if it's feasible 

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Let's talk,DanIve actually been looking into buying a condo myself as an investment, I have a few rules, needs to be with both good hoa management & relatively cheap fee (bellow $600 a month) needs to be in area where I’m not competing against other new construction apartments, needs to be an area where even townhomes are so expensive you are not competing, I.e. upper nw, nova, Bethesda etc. needs to be 1990’s or newer in most cases.

That absolutely eats any potential cash flow.. we moved here because of cheap property taxes and turns out it’s not so cheap after all if you’re an investor lol.

Throw out the high-value outliers. 

Cheap items will break sooner and require replacement, and will make your place look cheap overall. 

It takes capital to do this business and if you don't have it I wouldn't suggest throwing it into a marketing machine for wholesale deals.

Right now, you have a property with a great equity position, solid cash flow, and cheap debt (interest rate is low).