They can find and screen good tenants, so you don’t have to worry about them not paying rent or taking care of the property. 

Quote from @John Clark: Did you check for houses on the auction list,  or you can check with banks and look for REOs and convert that into a single family home and house hack or turn it into a Airbnb. 

Does anyone have any advise on the area or some good resources?

Depends on the town’s rules, though, so check that first.Renovation Loophole: Some places let you raise rents or get out of rent control if you do big renovations.

There’s a big advantage to naming 3 or less replacement properties in regards to 1031 rules.

times 3 years or $52k in interest.

For the first 4 loans or so, lenders are going to be less aggressive (requiring more down) than if you have several under your belt.

I'm hoping for $4000 or less... sent a DM

They either list owner-occuiped houses for sale or know they can show a normal buyer 5-10 houses for a sale.- It's not profitable for them to search for under-market priced houses, figure out repairs needed or what other problem is pushing the price down and do even more for a newbie investor that has analysis-paralysis and may never buy anything.Some questions you'll want to share the answers to with any agent you choose:1) Are you paying cash or getting a mortgage?

or get this sold or is the interest rate too hard to get past?