I'm more or less certain you're a barely functional grifter looking to work the welfare system more effectively than you already are.

In 2020 the banks keep working, barely, but nothing else is.

The state or the local municipalities, my county can barely enforce landlords to comply with occupancy permits.

I also saw an article about DINKs who are barely making it in bay area.  

The end return could be abysmal, many people actually loose money on these low end properties.I rather like Wilkes Bare/Scranton area too, reasonable demographic with lots of working class renters, and really not too far from where you are.Are you thinking of managing it yourself, or do you want to hire a PM.

The real wealth in real estate is from equity not cashflow, especially in 2021 when a lot of these C class historical cashflow markets are barely cashflowing after management.

Wait staff still get paid barely over $2 an hour.

If your net worth (income minus expenses) is under $200,000 or barely save $30,000, syndications are not for you.

Keep in mind the other wealth building parts aside from cash flow that aren’t factored into CoC: tax benefits/depreciation, appreciation, loan pay down building equity.YUP COC is just one cog in the wheel end of the day its all about IRR that's the metric.I bought a bare piece of land in Northern CA for 27k in 96. never produced a dime of income and had to pay tax. sold it jan of 2020 for just under 2 million.. that's IRR  not COC  extreme example but appreciation in quality assets is a key component to long term wealth building..

The first one I bought in 2007 so it barely broke even.