We are extremely interested in moving forward with real estate investing and know we need the right players on our team!  

It seems to only drill down to the county level, and obviously there can be EXTREME variation between different parts of a county. rentometer.com is much more location specific.

Your info, though, is extremely insightful!

I extremely motivated about real estate investing and believe it's just matter of time to crack code to take the next step and do my first deal.

This would be extremely easy to replace in another industry if suddenly the government experienced massive job cuts.

Not trying to discourage you either it's an extremely competitive market right now.

You can still flip but buy, rent, holds are extremely hard to come by.

All and all this is extremely doable.I hope this helps and have a great day.

I called several lenders and one was 75% LTV, one was extremely slow so I pulled the application, and another was 80% (who I went with).The refinanced property had everything practically new (wiring, plumbing, kitchens, bathrooms, decks, etc.) with few items less than 5 years old (roof, siding, furnaces/AC), but the windows were 10 years old. 

I recently attended my first local RE meet up this last week and it was extremely helpful.