I now have a few decent choices in Pittsburgh but it took me kissing about 5 frogs first. 

This can be very expensive and is usually the worst choice because you can't justify the cost.2.

The areas I'm searching now for properties are serving all three audiences well, so my next step is going to be looking for inroads to the corporate people who lead the relocation set up / contracts so as to be their Property-of-Choice. ;-)Many thanks!

. - If you don’t get significant movement within the next few weeks, preparing for a rental strategy might be the safest way to avoid holding onto the property through winter at a loss.

It's slowly improving and I suspect sec 8 would be a poor choice.

When you choice who is going to service your loan what are you looking for?

So I was looking to position myself differently.I understand that that’s super risky in this case so I’m reevaluating my choices.

@Casey Barry  Congratulation on winning two tax deeds in one auction.There are two choices that you can make in your situation. 1) do you think the owner will redeem.

Hello,I have several ways to fund a down payment on my first investment property and would like to know the "safest" way to do so...Cash, borrow against my 401K (and does this method constitue the start of my investments) or HELOC. 

If you don't know what you're expecting to get out of any program, class, seminar, employment choice (Subto, BP, Tony Robbins, etc.) you'll never get your monies worth.