These were in the Myrtle Beach and North Myrtle Beach markets, but I believe this is a factor to consider in any market you're looking at. 

You cannot choose a section 8 tenant over a market rate tenant.

Quote from @John Paul Palace: Our plan was to invest locally, however our market here is tough.

Welcome to the real estate hive.. are you open to exploring off-market listings through your network? 

Spring may be better but I was unable to sell a cheap house in October for 5% off of “market value” and only sold a $600k home in January by listing it for $580k and I still only got one offer. ($150k down, 5 year seller financing.) my point being you may get $20-$40k more in a year if you don’t need to sell. 

If you do not do your market research correctly, it doesn't matter how great your list is because you will pull a list in a bad market.

Quote from @Clive Duncan: I'm not sure if this forum is still active, but I'm looking to chat with a few real estate investors in Ontario who may be interested in raising funds by selling fractional shares of their property.My co-founder and I are doing some market research so we need to talk to some folks to gather more insights before building this out.If this interests you or someone you know, please reach out.

@Cosmo DePinto The Huntsville market is tough right now.  

We didn’t find a joint investment, but I found an off-market deal and invested with my dad separately.

I've been tracing wholesalers in califonia for months, like nothing other state finding individual wholasalers in califonia is quite challenging I don't know if it's because the house prices are too high compared to other markets.