Seems like he is only running convenience side of business. 

The Midwest seems to be the theme when it comes to cash flow and I also believe it holds a ton of potential for appreciation if you do it right.I now have 14-doors in Detroit and I stay extremely active in the market outside my own investing.

I've looked in a couple other vacation areas nearby and it doesn't seem any are as lucrative.2) Do you think Landers and Johnson Valley are too far from the action to make sense?

Also, we have more and more people working in Asheville while living in Waynesville, which seems to make it a better equity play than Maggie as well (i.e., for resale, you can hope to have owner occupant buyers as well).

Read Trepp-Wise it has a lot of stories on foreclosure, it seems the highest risk is in office.

It seems to me we are back to pre-pandemic levels. 

Occasionally they seem to have some success and pick up 5-10 properties.

I keep hearing examples about paying contractors $15k for a rehab that adds $40k of value, and similar numbers, which seems highly unlikely to me.

If so, this seems about what most lenders would offer.

They seem good but than they change after a few months.