Mgmt/Real Estate companies local to the area that specialize in investment properties - Rent to Avg Price ratio seems to be in our favor for many of the properties we've seen listed.Cons:- Relatively high taxes- POS Requirements (I've seen properties with dozens of listed "POS" items that need to be fixed)- Water bill is typically paid by landlord (although I've seen some on here talk about PM companies passing that bill to the tenants lately)Given our criteria, is there anyone here that would recommend we scrap Cleveland as our entry point for RE Investing?

Change the keywords around, look for different size lots, BRs, BAs, features Etc....sometimes different places will popup if you search like this....When you find a place, go search on a competitors search engine, you will often find more pictures, a different description, better historical data, etc..

This project will ultimately be my entry into the market.

This article cherry picked data elements and weighted them and then left out the data element that has the biggest overall affect on price.

This was our re-entry into full time real estate investing.

Value add renovations, streamlining operational costs, acquiring off market/below market, rent increases (inline with current market & post reno, creating appreciation via increased NOI), incremental revenue streams, operating in growth markets (driven by data) - these are all ways to deliver returns. 

This was our re-entry into full time real estate investing.

Yet, every entry level real-estate role I've found says "must have Illinois state license".

There are absolutely no signs of forced entry and the latch is down on the gate which locks it.

If nothing else it gives you more data points for your negotiations, and as every inspector is different, you double your chances something doesn't get missed.