I am also an atheist so I do want to buy in a city with a good amount of progressive people as well.Anyways if any users own homes in any of the cities I've mentioned above or have experience investing into them I'd love to hear your opinions on them!

I was 23 years old when I started and I wanted to use real estate as a way to pay for my college (without getting students loans.)These are the steps I suggest when getting into wholesaling:1.

By that I mean use real leases with month to month terms, collect a security deposit $50 or something. 

Just missed yesterdays meeting.It's nice to see users and even podcast guests are investing locally.

It's hard to answer you specifically though because you don't specify what the 'booming' business is.Usually you can find the investor/user through a local broker.

Square is free to the user.

Perhaps its user error on my part (but I doubt it!). 

A couple of newbie mistakes  1) slightly overpaid on the initial buy 2) Underestimated monthly expenses ( insurance, pool service) 3) slightly overestimated what I can command for rentThe positive is there is a 25% equity in the house in an area that seems to not be slowing down as far as real estate climate.

The reason I recommend this approach is that you will have 3 and when you eventually move out, you'll have 4 units to spread risk across, instead of just 1 unit as you would with a single family house.Once you have everything rented, I would start doing renovations so the property looks updated, will command higher rent and you can cash-out refi to pull equity out and use it for your next property purchase.

Can she see how investing can give her money to grow that business, that she can use real estate money to hire a maid to take care of the house so she can focus solely on what she loves?