@River Sava and @Elle LoFrisco have a bunch of great realtor connections in markets across the country.

We've been looking primarily in the Red River Gorge (KY) area and also in the Hocking Hills (OH) area.

As an lehigh valley native, I'd suggest sticking with house hacking, especially given your success and comfort with this strategy.

Is there a valley in the roof above that area- looks like no gutters and a valley in the roof causing water to erode?

He does commercial investing and notes, mostly.You mentioned flipping houses 4 hours out for under 1.5 - I would look closer and try and find a small flip in the following neighborhoods: Sylmar/Sun Valley - Shadow Hills adjacent, Sun Valley - Burbank adjacent, Van Nuys - Sherman Oaks adjacent, Van Nuys/North Hollywood - Burbank adjacent.

Hi Sumit, Tracy Hills is experiencing significant growth due to its proximity to major job centers like Silicon Valley and its appeal as a suburban community.

Im on the west valley and prices are still out of this world. 400k for a decent home that rents for $2200.What Ive gathered is that these investors have/are in:Syndicates PartnershipsRefi their appreciating home to purchase another oneEither way, a lot of these people own a small percentage of that home and/or are very over leveraged

@Robert S. sorry you're experiencing this--I've been in your shoes, and it's no fun.Luckily, I have extensive experience with this type of issue (I learned the hard way when I bought a property that was basically built above a subterranean river that caused three basement floods in about six months!). 

I own and operate STRs in the Hudson Valley NY area and have done fix and flips there as well. 

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