This guy is in Oakland, I'm typing Baltimore here so people with that keyword alert are notified: https://anchor.fm/sean-pan/episodes/33---Why-Investing-in-Your-Backyard-is-the-Best-Strategy-with-Saj-Shah-e3d249?

So in short if you believe you will receive an education in RE through the job that is going to pay you 15plus an hour and you continue to live as frugal as possible, then I think within the next 5 years you will have your own bigger pockets podcast episode and have one hec of an allegory to share.

"Vacuum the truck" - from one of the BP Podcast episodes a few months ago.

There was discussion on one of the BP podcast episodes about working with an agent vs getting your license that touches on this same concept.

Flip2freedom episode 77http://www.flip2freedom.com/a-3-step-formula-to-a-... - LISTEN TO THIS TODAY!

I feel like a lot of the experts are saying stay in cash and wait (Bigger pockets podcast last couple episodes).

Episode 268 of The BiggerPockets Podcast interviewed Rich Carey, who at the time was investing in Alabama from Korea. www.biggerpockets.com/show268

This is an interesting story, which could probably be a classic American greed episode OR the most naive Real Estate Investing story ever! 

@Gary Siver you're right, I might be a little high on my roof estimates, but in the episode I watched they replaced 80% of the underlayment as well. 

I have heard all of the podcast shows 1-200.. but I am curious what made you recommend that specific episode?