I was looking at Home Depot and most of the selection has more ornate design than I want or is MDF which just seems cheap to me.  

Or...Buy a cheap single family home that needs some work, something between 25K-50K, put 10K-20K into it to make it nice and somewhere would a family would like to live, and then charge between 800-1000 for rent.....and buy multiple properties like that.

If you want a cheap & dirty solution you can take it down, paint gorilla glue inside all the splits, and pull the door back together with 48" bar clamps.  

Florida for instance - there are plenty of people on BP that can probably tell you the good areas and the bad areas, the expense areas and the cheap areas, etc. etc.

hello everyone,Have been looking more heavily into single family rentals because some can be picked up for relatively cheap around me.

A bit more expensive up front, but the cards are cheap and you can keep giving every new college kid their own card.

Some routes you can be really cheap with, others not quite.I got started wholesaling when I was bringing home right around $1k a MONTH, no savings, just gas in my car, and determination.

You buy a property for cheap that you typically could not finance through the FHA because it is distressed.

Murray Hill is my favorite for balance of cash-on-cash and appreciation potential, as it's a gentrifying neighborhood with some dirt cheap properties, and usually if you're patient you can find >1.5% monthly on the MLS. 

And cheap property taxes like here in Philly