Also no matter what people say it is better to invest locally so you can keep an eye on your investment. 

If you have no prior construction experience I would ask your contractor if you could Observe and help in order to gain knowledge and hands in experience while having a watchful eye checking your work.

So definitely keep your eyes open to North west Indiana as well.

I don't think you will be able to replicate that irreplaceable one-on-one eye-to-eye while overseas. 

I don't care if your in the nicest of neighborhoods , your next door neighbor might be a drug dealer .. who knows really .. but , its not as bad as everyone overseas thinks it is .. we don't all carry guns and shoot people or do drugs on every street corner .. most big citys have good area and bad areas .. a lit of the areas that used to be considered bad are now getting revamped and rebuilt by people like you and I .. by purchasing homes in poor shape and then rehabbed, thus beautifying the neighborhood and once one house gets done its like a dominio effect .. more investors start doing the same .. a lot if citys have funds avalible for investors to rehab certain areas also ..Yes, I look at houses of interest , I try to research what i can first to see if the house is wirth my time to put eyes on it , or if a investor sends me a house they are interested in then I go look at it for them ..

Landlords time is worth nothing in the eyes of the court.

So while all eyes are on Comey's testimony, GOP controlled house just killed Dodd-Frank.  

I'm watching a few auctions in NY right now and this disclosure caught my eye.

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The moment real estate investing comes up, many are interested until their eyes start rolling into the back of their heads when you get into the nitty gritty....