As others stated, finishing jobs with a quality product will make your reputation spread quickly.Yes Phil - Stevens Point area and essentially a 1 hour drive from there would be my service area (Wausau, Waupaca, New London, Wisconsin Rapids, etc).

I had a client this very afternoon drop rapid mortgage and go to a different local L/O and we had not even submitted an offer yet. 

All growing at rapid rates - growing local economies, etc.

My wife is from Holland, MI and we have been investing in Grand Rapids, Kalamazoo and Holland since 2016.

Put the offer in at $250K and have it go up in $1K increments to a max of $1K over their best offer for a max price of $257K. 

@Drew BrownThere are facebook groups for Lansing and Grand Rapids and there is a meetup in Traverse City area once a month.

We are an affiliate group to the RPOA of Grand Rapids. 

Lack of Landlord-friendly laws is another big reason I have tended to avoid looking in my state and most of the surrounding areas as well and states like Texas and Florida are ones that consistently come ups as being much more friendly to landlords, but I do worry about finding deals in certain parts of states like this with more institutional investors moving into the really rapidly developing areas.

I use RELATIVE VALUE in markets when values are changing rapidly(now moving up) is to consider relative value, that is would you trade 2 of these properties for 1 of that property.

Inflation will continue a rapid rise into 2022 as supply side challenges and wage increases will continue into the new year.