A partner and I spent four years remodeling and turning around that property, spending quite a lot of time on-site.

Give yourself a budget of perhaps two hundred dollars to spend on used books from Amazon.com and other sources.

@Alton Williams I started with about $40K saved up, I spend my first few years Flipping houses, building up the pile then graduated to rentals and continued flipping, I havent done a flip in over a year now, but would if the right one came along. 

I have 2 small kids and I intend to spend their school years with them as much as possible. 

Spend some time studying everything about the market you want to buy in.

A big part of the markets is based upon consumer spending from what I understand. 

@Jered Collins I have a few thoughts1) That specific property is on the more desirable side of the tree streets2) If you want those rent numbers, your going to spend close to 10k per unit.

I know how much I have to spend, so I stay strict with my bidding and not go over.

We only consider it because I spend so much time in Northern Harnett for a completely different business, that a house or two down there would be easy to manage.

Without this property I would have spend thousands in hotels and air bnb fees to see my son.