You might want to look at going across the border in to Kansas City, MO, The insurance rates are much lower and the landlord/tenant laws are more favorable.

It's the area that sort of borders East Liberty and Lincoln-Larrimer.  

Near home you can check out the NHREIA in Manchester, the NH RE Mastermind in Nashua and just over the border the NEREIA in Chelmsford.  

We moved to MD from VA (right across from the NC border) and we are preparing our house now to be rented out.  

Income per capita are approximately equal both sides of the border.  

I have grown to like the NW Indiana market vs IL due to manufacturing/industrial companies moving across the border, landlord friendliness of IN, cheaper taxes and it will also give me the opportunity to get started sooner with the price of homes.

As another post mentions above, the antiquated municipality system generates wildly varying tax rates in communities that border one another. 

The house was abandoned and smothered by a just under 60k healthcare lien and extensive litigation from unpaid nursing with the now deceased owner.  

It's called border income.  

I lived in San Jose for a while (right on the Campbell border), and in San Francisco, but I currently live in Oakland.What's my real estate background?