In my opinion, Baldwin County is probably your best bet if you are looking for long term renters instead of yearly turnover.

His comment on costs was $4k-$6k but I have no idea what that includes and I think it was a guess having no foreclosure experience in AL.Do you have any good web sites I can read about the process or anything else not immediately obvious?

If not, I’d bet there was no partnership return.Assuming a 50/50 split, you should take half of all income, expenses and profit and report that on your return.

Some sort of owner occupied strategy (house hack or live in flip) is probably your best bet for a first investment.

Your best bet is going to be to join the facebook groups, there are 3 major ones in Lansing.

HUD publishes the Median Fair Market Rent on their web site for the entire country.

If you're looking to avoid a rather large tax hit, a 1031 is probably your best bet.  

So a nicely decked out  cabin I bet would rent real well for STR purposes  Not sure about permits etc..

Trade school for plumbing is 2-4yrs, I'm not gonna take you from 0 knowledge to full comprehension on a web forum. 

Trying to go to companies directly is rarely going to be your best bet.