I've been wanting to get some advice from people about my specific situation, but there's a lot so I'll try to keep it to the point;In short, I'm wanting to "officially" start my real estate investing journey, making it my source of income - and I'm wanting to do house flipping as my strategy, at least initially.  

Below is some information about home prices in Ohio, sourced from Google AI.

Do you have a source? 

@Kathy DiamondI sourced about 12-13 houses that met the 1% Rule here in Memphis.

Moving forward we would just add it in the parking areas as well (the cost was not that high, just needs a good electrical source nearby). 

From everything I hear the costs exponentially grow when a PM hires out your repairs/maintenance compared to the cost of you source the work yourself.

This can diversify your funding sources.6.

Life insurance might be another untapped source of liquidity to look into (if you have one in place).

I'm not sure if I'd like to take a chance in sourcing new tenants in the area and hoping I don't get bad ones, given that the area seems to be one that lots of people stay away from.

To do with other ppls money, you need that personal relationship with the money source and then they have to trust you in terms of market research, boots on ground, analyzation, contracting, and exit sale.