No one apart from someone who makes loans in Columbus can tell you that your return is acceptable.

One is that RE prices have fallen to where the profit is poor. 

That left me only one option to report those calls as spam & block those numbers.

  - I quickly learned it was easier to go to that same bank in advance and ask for purchase + rehab financing all in one loan, one set of closing costs and it takes any the stress of worrying about the refinance. 

since you basically have to do everything yourself why would any one pay 15k for a few referraals to realtors and contractors you can get that here on BP..

44102 is one of my favorite zip codes on the west side. 44111 is also solid pocket that's worth checking out. 

There is not a one answer fits all 

You didn't ask for help on anything...I followed the steps and one of which was to make a post.

I always tell investors they should bea note investors best friend for off market deals - of course the ones that do reach out to us are wholesalers trying to lowball the hell out of the deal thinking we are idiots but we are typically very sophisticated and no the numbers very well including the ARV, what it will take to get it repaired as well as rental rates. 

I asked him if it would make his job easier if the city banned these, and he said "absolutely, but no one is going to do that."