The down side for you is that he likely wants full retail price for them.

@Joshua Hill since the market is hot right now I would expect tax deed auctions to be pretty competitive.

I had an owner with $300k of equity on a $450k house, tell me he got behind and lost his house to me in foreclosure because his girlfriend is super hot but really needed bigger boobs, and not making his payment was the only idea he could come up with.

From there we also discovered Afford Anything and the BP podcasts, where we realized that we wanted to go the real estate route, while still investing in low cost index funds on the side.  

Hello all,I recently purchased a SFR in lyndhurst oh (a suburb on the east side of Cleveland).

Looking around for real estate in central Maryland I'm finding some weird stuff of people posting about duplex's for sale but seemingly only focusing on one side of the property and never implying or mentioning the second side.

As a beginner I'm assuming it will take time to acquire more properties to get to our cash flow goal since we are planning this as a side hustle.

Side note; seattle 1 bedrooms are having dramatic increases in vacancy rates.The retail apocolypse that will kill 40 percent of that sectors square footage needs in the coming decade, no yeild in bonds, artificially cheap money(interest rates) and an old bull equities market has everybody fishing in the same shallow pond.Please keep your job until you have something SECURED.

There are built in wood book shelves on each side of the fire place that I thought of painting but then decided to just keep the wood look.

When you are buying as an investor, only FNMA has a deed restriction on the buy side that prevents you selling for more than 120% of the purchase price for 90 daysWhen you go to sell,  if your buyer is looking to obtain an FHA loan, the contract may not be executed for 90 days from the date the deed is recorded.