@Jacqueline Carrington, I was sitting next to you at the meetup - I was the guy with the north face jacket. 

In the suburbs, each municipality has its own rules and ordinances, so you can cross a street or road (suburbs have lots of roads named Township Line Road) and can have a different set of rules to follow than on the other side of the street.  

Haslet, Arlington, North Richland Hills, Keller etc. 

Welcome @Jacob Geller, I am familiar with the north shore area right outside of Boston and Northwest of Boston.

These are desirable areas where you would actually want to buy a house to flip or hold as rental because they have good schools, safe neighborhoods and  little to no "war zone" type streets.I drove EACH street looking for houses that are either outdated or needing serious repairs (based on exterior appearance).

I have a rental in the not-so-great part of North Charleston, SC.

North Texas Association or Real Estate Investors http://ntarei.com/ This group has a general meeting once a month and hosts a lots of workshops for a small fee.

I ran by the property and it was badly overgrown and barely visible from the street, but I made my way to the house and had a look around the property...

i would like to do that but the only bad thing about that is I live in North Carolina (the aka  retirement state) and since I'm in this for the long haul the bad thing about the duplex is most of all duplexes in my local area are in bad parts of town for 1 and 2 our market turnover for duplex tenants are high 2 and lastly for me starting out getting a duplex would mean I have to manage more then one tenant at a time which could be a little difficult for me being a newbie and all.

I own 15 properties in the Pittsburgh neighborhood and I can tell you that this is not a deal, because you'd be paying 72K for something worth 80K (value is questionable, because McDaniel is a very busy street)Also, you won't find management, because most PM don't want to deal with those low rent numbers.