Get your Pittsburgh team in place and then start to grow your portfolio one at a time and at a controlled pace. its easy to buy. its not easy to buy right and know your limitations.

It is usually easy to identify who is a landlord and who is a professional property manager.

Also referred to as "comps."

This is relatively easy as we are re-plumbing the whole house but I won't be able to get market rent and charge extra utilities. 

Unless you're doing majority of this work yourself ($10k on contractors could be one job), you're already in at 80% of the arv before any repairs and sales commission (about 9-10% easy) and your buying closing costs. walk away. 

Good referals  for agents/PMs?

I'm sorry but I do not have any references in Akron.

Looking for Investor friendly, reliable, take ownership and easy to communicate with.  

I liked the landlord friendly laws, I liked the net inward migration, I liked the multiple industries and I liked that it was easy to get something near the 1% rule.

I have a title company that was referred to me.