If that money is somehow burning a hole in your pocket then you can set up a small marketing campaign and use say $500 - $600 per month on letters or post cards for distressed properties then wholesale them.

Hopefully its not burning to red/orange versus blue.For the longer list you probably got, it can even get longer if you piss them off.

The previous owners were terrible at screening and got burned out.

Have had some interest but with winter coming along and school already started leads are slowing up.  1 prospective tenant is on the market because their home burned down and the insurance company is paying their rent while the destroyed home is being rebuilt/rehabbed. 

I think Arsenal Heights stops at State st, but you are near some very nice homes (I personally own two just west of that address on Ohio), but also about a block away from your house is a house our tenant burned to the ground and told me they burned it to the ground and the cops said they couldn't do anything unless we had a video.

Excited yet nervous, but your story helps to fuel that fire that burns in the heart of every entrepreneur, its the thrill of building something new, and you are doing it, thank you for sharing.

The USA does not stock the necessary transformers that the EMP attack would burn out.

@Cassidy Burns Not always, but it definitely helps!

This prevents burns if you have little ones.

Keeping the wonky mechanic theme:If the 4cyl, air-cooled engine in your 1975 VW camper needed a new top-end (all four cylinders), but you decided to replace (rehab) only two cylinders ... you won't be leaving the driveway for that trip to Burning Man.When I look at a partially renovated property, I go in with the position that if the vendor was too underfunded to complete the project, than it is more than possible that s/her also took shortcuts in the work which has been completed.