You can get better return comparing with the stock market (10-15% is reasonable expectation) and with lower risk.

How does Vis Major compare to Brickway? 

If all the comparable houses in the neighborhood are flying off the shelf for $100k in a matter of days & you offered $85k the agent wants to hear your understanding or reasoning as to why.

If you are going to leverage it and get any financing, traditional  lenders like to see 6 months PITI in the bank for each property.When I acquire a property I plan to finish in the first 6 months any costs to rehab or improve the property.

Looking for non traditional financing bc I am newly self employed.

To your successJosh the only state in the US I have not set foot in.... but I have to figure like much of rural PA there are great deals there and very low entry points.. compared to other areas..

Seems to me like rent has come down a little bit compared to last year or the year before.

I compared everything to it.  

It might be different in your market but in a lot of places there are just more people moving in the summer, so you would have a larger tenant pool to choose from, compared to the winter when fewer people are moving. 

You can start working with your bank and compare their services with other lenders.