Don't rush a purchase just because you want to own a rental property.

As it all turned out we went ahead with our plans.

I would just go ahead and use the agentpro247 website, but unfortunately they do not provide filtering for percent equity... which to me seems like a very critical aspect.  

If anyone out there knows of one in Reno, give me a heads up!  

I will go ahead and check out those links.

Package free access with increase rent and you maybe able to come out ahead because you are able to piggy back on the infrastructure and tech support of the local ISP.  

As I indicated at the beginning I'm sure there are less labor intensive ways to get ahead in real estate but this get-wealthy-slow, sweat-equity path has been really low risk and reasonably lucrative.

I'm assuming in similar fashion to 1 unit dwellings, all planned renovations were planned out with quotes provided ahead of time.

I've been doing some reading and would like to clarify some things before I move ahead.

To be honest I'm flexible in not having positive cash flow because I'd plan to live there and no longer paying rent already puts me $900/month ahead while not even considering the equity being built.I'm looking in the Philly suburb areas at homes around the 250k mark (which is where it seems you need to be for something decent) and it seems the average rents for nice 3br/1.5bath are only about 1500/month.