Other than being a homeowner I have zero experience in real estate.Plan is to buy single family homes in middle class, mostly owner occupied neighborhoods with good schools.  

Minimum middle score for conventional is 620, DTI up to 50% (again depending on FICO), 6 months reserves worth of the mortgage payment, taxes and insurance for all property's you own.  

It would be bad faith to accept a second buyer in the middle of that process.  

About 20-30 minutes east of Indianapolis.

@Chris Siegler ,I have a bunch of units in the East Bay, and prefer to stay here, but there are lots of folks making money all over ;)  Make sure you do all your due diligence on your team, and on the area, before you pull the trigger.

While there I helped out my friend's dad who had a bunch of rentals in the 10th & Sherman area of the near east side and he had a really hard time keeping anybody in them and ended up just dumping most of them real cheap.

Thanks to being a delivery driver for years, working a state rep political campaign walking door to door one entire fall, and growing up riding my bike every where in middle school I feel I can do some serious investing in these areas as my knowledge increases.

Are you finding enough lower priced properties in the East Bay?

I'm actually in the middle of exactly such a deal right now and I'll know soon how it tuns out....

Most flights cost around 10,000 points for me, since I'm on the east coast.