If it a smaller town and smaller title company may be the reason.

Are there shifts in rental prices, vacancy rates, or investment strategies that are worth discussing?

All are priced about the same but there are some cheaper options like rentmanager, promas, or doorloop. 

My husband and I did get a quote and tried to use it to renegotiate the price of the house.

The asking price was 299K but I ended up getting the property for 276K (What it was appraised for). 

Low pricing and don''t worry about profit?

Purchase price: $215,000 Cash invested: $55,000 When we talk about long term rentals the goal is to buy something that people are going to live in 3-5 years with the ability to raise rent over time ahead of insurance, taxes and inflation.

After that, in Cleveland/Columbus and Indianapolis areas.at this point it seems the easier way its getting the first couple of deals under conventional and then going with dscr.its just seems weird to me I need to own a primary residence in order to have dscr( I live in LA where prices are crazy), and wondering now how people that dont live in US how they invest in the states. 

this is why i no longer purchase for out-of-state sub 100k price.....if you keep buying and selling 5-7 years you are not going to hit the "capex" that's the trick I learnt from MFs.

I'm thinking of hiring virtually from Upwork, Fiver or Onlinejobs as opposed to some of the bigger SEO companies just because of the price difference.