If you polish your tenant managing skills you won't have to look for the best "landlord-friendly states", you can buy cash flow properties around your town.

Maybe in the beginning Clayton thought Oceanpointe could magically polish these turds somehow and turn them into performing assets but I doubt he’s that’s stupid to believe what he was selling was a viable product even in the beginning, and a year or so ago when he started getting compliants/ people asking for their money back he could have stopped then but he was in too deep and kept selling trying to sell his way out of it by attracting new investors and using those new funds to “pay rent” to his existing investors, who hadn’t yet learned that their property was vacant and never got rehabbed or rented.

Just a few things here and there to polish off the look.

There are plenty great free templates out there (Turbotenant has them), and I would recommend sitting down with a RE attorney to polish everything (yes, it will cost some money). 

It isn't huge but is pretty decent and has some upside with a bit of spit and polish to fancy it up.

Don't hire an agent just because they can sell your flip fast or look polished.

When I used laminate flooring in my low income property the tenants still trashed the flooring from gouging to spilled nail polish to paint.

Top is Agreeable Gray, bottom-left is Behr Silver Polish (didn't like it), and bottom-right is Olympus White.

Since I am not quite to a point where I am ready to dive in (need more research, more capital, and to minimize debts and polish up credit score), is using such websites very useful for me for checking deals?

Add in $250 for each undersink counter cut and polish plus $50 per cut.Hard to beat the price and durability, but the downside for me is having to bring in the specialist to do it (my maintenance guys can do laminate tops, but need stone guy to do the granite cuts well).