It's all a numbers game and knowing if the numbers make sense with the turnover, rehab, and higher rents.

It's good and easy to use. 

We needed a place to live and we decides to keep it when we moved.

It was put in place because the feds have increased immigration for the last ~10 years (over 5M people or 8% of our population) to the point that we now have a housing shortage. 

Are you open to taking a loan out on the home you bought with cash?

If the software is not simplifying your life or making you more accurate, you shouldn't use it.

I think you really need to work with an agent based on what I am reading between the lines in your post. 

He does a lot of BRRRR, flip, and hold between Pittsburgh and West Virginia and will surely know the Pittsburgh markets you are considering.

Patience can be your best friend and if you attempt to over leverage a property it can come back to hurt you.Some will recommend buying subject 2 where you could take over an existing mortgage that could be at a substantially lower rate - but if the lender finds out and calls the loan that could also be very bad.

They had purchased a home in Waldo in March of 2023 and refinanced to pull cash out to buy the new home in Lawrence.