I still think nothing beats California appreciation - if you can house hack, add an ADU buying locally has an advantage (can check on the renovation in person frequently, which I did on my Bay Area SFH) but the Midwest is much easier to get into real estate investing with less money. 

This happens repeatedly.

It seems like I could rinse and repeat this process to hold each property in its own LLC, which I like the idea of.

But I do suggest not just repeating what you've heard and doing some real research.

Any smart drug dealing business man would cut there losses if they aim to stay under the radar.Drug dealers are NOT smart - they're idiots and frequently act completely irrational.Also- I did a background check...$40 and nothing came up, though the police screen listed things when I went to see them.I don't know what that means.

We love your questions; however, many are repeated regularly.To answer your questions This only pertains to rental income..

I reckon you shouldn't focus so much on deals that would "cash flow well", but, deals whose ARV (after YOUR rehab) WILL get you all your initial outlay back upon Refi, (and will STILL cash flow - a bit), so you can Repeat, Repeat, Repeat......

Like in the example of buying a quad, living in one, rehabbing the rest, increasing rents for the rehabbed unit, using the GMR for the area to find a new valuation price for the quad, refinancing, buying another unit, waiting for another year, monitoring the GMR and selling the first unit at a high appreciation, using the proceeds towards a 1031 exchange and repeating the process.

You can also hire someone local to capture the scan, but that can get expensive and they will charge you to repeatedly host the virtual tour.

It is frequently much much  higher.