Whether it's hidden gems or established areas, I'm open to exploring various options.Here's where your expertise comes in:- Promising Markets: Based on your experience, which areas offer compelling opportunities for cash flow and appreciation within the $150k range?

Phil Grove and Shenoah Grove have a business model based on education, not really on real estate investing, and they are simply interested in the big $$ that people pay to join their programs; and that is all they do, and this is how their system is organized.  

Should it be based on the lease value or is negotiating something based on my costs incurred plus time and suffering the better route?

Ever heard the saying, “It’s not the big words but the small print that matters”?

Successful investors don't get caught out (insert surprise) to win the long game.

Hi Leanna, Given the work you've put into the property, you can refinance based on its new value without a seasoning period.

Fast-forward one month to today, I still have heard no word from Philadelphia L&I (even after calling/e-mailing) and I'm ready to start renting it out, but one problem:"The Philadelphia Property Maintenance Code (Section PM-102.6.4) requires an owner offering residential property for rent to provide the following to the tenant at the inception of each tenancy:A Certificate of Rental Suitability issued by the Department of Licenses and Inspections no more than sixty (60) days prior to the inception of the tenancy.A copy of the “City of Philadelphia Partners for Good Housing” brochure issued by the Department of Licenses and Inspections....."

And if you hang in the game long enough, you could do massive volume.  

Softwares can have differing "freshness" of data based on locations they support.For example, one software may update their pre-foreclosure list for Akron, Ohio 1x a week and another 1x a month.

And as far as the title insurance that’s non existent my father isn’t the paperwork kind of guy more the hand shaking keeping word signed contract and go about his day.