I find Austin to be affordable, but then again I'm living in Mountain View, CA.

I would also like to get your view on if it is a good idea for an agent to focus on distress properties in California.  

Relatively low rent for sky high purchase prices is those areas described. 

This being his only rental property, he started to have to pay the contractors out of his own pocket.Then the tenants where not taking very good of the house either.I should also point out that he didn't do any tenant screening, he let them because they were friends of a friend.His point of view on how nice the place should look took a drastic change, more inline with my ideas.In the end things have worked out and we basically agree on everything now.  

Hi guysQuick post to say hello and introduce myself briefly.Live in Wilmington NC.Been absorbing info from BP podcasts on my tedious 1 hr commute - thanks Josh and Brando, you keep enlightening me.My grand plan is to rehab and flip properties to build equity to get buy n hold passive income generation, with a view to employment replacement or at least to subsidize it.So that my plan in a nutshell.Say hi if you're in the area, or just say hi cos you're nice.Thanks guys

65th Congress  should be okay area3/2 or 4/1 rent estimating without viewing property $1,000 through $1,100 via traditional tenantsor more importantly section 8Definitely asked your buyer agent to run cma for this propertyGood luck

I feel like I saw a post in which someone described that sometimes banks will look down or deny people with a license when trying to get an investment property put in their own name.

So since the bank asked we've tried to organize presentations that describe how we can benefit an investor if they partner with us.

I figured this was something like you all described.

Should have told me that before we ran the check.Here's the problem, if they had told us about the eviction, and been up front about it - we could either have saved the application fee being wasted, or taken a view whether to continue on it, which we might well have - as I said, he was a nice genuine guy.But by not disclosing it his credibility was shot.