Well kudos to your swift response-- that speaks volumes to your systems and how you'll treat if/when I'm a customer:)).

I work primarily out of Fairfield County and volume/prices are pretty healthy here.Looking at an entire state like that is never a good idea - in just about any state!

Lastly, if Section 8 is your business model, I'd suggest reading the books The Section 8 Bible (Volumes 1 & 2) because they're entertaining and actually give some good advice for Section 8 landlords. 

These added wrinkles generally keep volume players out of these areas allowing smaller companies to add to their capital bases before competing with CalAtlantic Homes and GreyStar. 

If you're going to be heading towards high-volume you're going to want to hire a GC so rehab can be managed by someone else.

I don't know if they would go through the hassle considering the volume they deal with.

In my area, the multifamily foreclosures that hit the courthouse steps are about 1% of total FS volume.

So if I start increasing volume on rentals and/or rehabs, I will be just stuffing my retirement account, while not creating an available income stream to live off of.

I don't know.I think many U.S investors are comfortable investing in their own back yard.Investing in another country there is so many unknowns and increased risk.There should be thousands of local investors in Russia and Turkey.I would think the local route would be better.The local investors would understand the risk and dynamics of their country.If local investors are not wanting to fund it that should speak volumes about potential issues or to low of a return for the project.

I've seen smaller offices that have done the same volume of business as the larger franchise office.