When I say full gut I mean the floor had no flooring it was bowed and rotted joists ..there was no tub no shower no fixtures no toilet no vanity no lighting medicine cabinet or anything , just an empty gross room with a bowed/sloped floor with a window .

He had sold a house to a woman on a land contract and her balance was $31,000 and was paying just under $500 per month PITI at 11% interest.

I would recommend looking up Rachel Gainsbrugh- she's a former pharmacist who was able to retire from medicine due to STRs/MTRs, and she teaches others how to do the same.I'd say smart call looking at other markets- choose a market based on its fundamentals, not proximity!

Look for keys left on the countertop or in a top kitchen drawer; check refer contents and take photos; check medicine cabinet contents and take photos; check closets, and reevaluate whether you honestly believe it is abandoned.

I've been in the real estate game since 2015 and spent 11 years as a combat medic in the National Guard.I'm a seasoned small-time investor, eager to expand my portfolio.

We are all physicians but in a field that is considered "lower compensated" in medicine (Pediatrics) so it is hard to come up with some of these larger minimums, and some are not as interested in having such a higher portion of their investments dedicated to real estate, but still want the diversification. 

Like I said there is genuine intent to move, but without them publishing an extenuating circumstances list it could be hard to make the decision to say "oh jeeze I want to trap myself here for a year, unable to help members of my family who are struggling with rent" or "aw man my mom needs help with her medicine but HUD told me no" if taking in an additional family member is not a valid reason to move out of a homepath/HUD property.

Until you have physicians begin to change the way medicine is practiced (by force or voluntarily, likely by force), costs will continue to escalate.

But I don't want to go to a doctor until I know what I'm sick with, and what the right medicine is.

I hope to one day transition out of medicine and into real estate full time.