Usually the rules for lending one a 2nd home are that it be located a certain distance from your primary, and you agree to use it for a couple weeks a year for personal use. 

If this happens, I need to consider buying or renting overseas and possibly making my first RE investment back as a long-distance in the states.

If so, if I was you, I would buy a 4 or 5 bedroom house in College Park (where the occupancy law is up to 5 unrelated adults can live in a house) that is walking distance to the University of Maryland and move into it and rent out the other rooms and hopefully you can live for free and maybe even make a little money.

Even if you are long distance.

The property is located walking distance to a lake and i feel ARV is somewhere around $200K to 205k.

Hi everyone, I’m currently fairly in real estate and looking for my first investment deal for a house hack driving distance from nyc.

But ideally we'd like both of our work commutes to be as short as possible because of our lack of experience - and competence driving in the snow.In our brief scouting of the area she has inevitably taken a liking to trendier areas like Lakewood, Tremont and Ohio City.

The location is amazing and has great long term potential, being in an up and coming neighborhood walking distance to Downtown and many other amenities.

Since your on a limited funds basis @Clayton Hepler you should focus on those PR's (personal representative) that resides outside the state of PA (CA, TX, WY, SC, NV, FLA, etc.)There's a good chance that the PR would be well motivated to sell while commuting from their home state living outside of PA.The main issue with your mailing piece is to get the PR to respond.

Are people willing to live in that town to commute to a large one?