I am also from Kentucky and am about half an hour to an hour from Louisville.

I bought my duplex a few years (and still live there with my three high energy dogs) and have accumulated half a dozen units with my family aside from that. 

Some places it could even be around half the market value.

. $200k (actually $194,500) got me a 2,250 square foot, half acre, 3BD 2.5BA house with a two car garage in NE Durham 10 minutes from Brier Creek.

Mike call me in a half hour or tomarrow morning?  

Since then  weeds are growing through the so called "3 inch thick" surface. 

We had the event in the city for awhile but got some complaints from the suburban people about the drive so moved it to half way

So a lot of people are telling me that a great way to start investing and practice land lording is to own a duplex and rent the other half out but people are making it seem like you can get free rent out of doing so...

I went as far as to have my paycheck split to where I live off 1/2 my earnings with the other half going directly into my real estate account.It taught me to comfortably live on less and made payday more exciting.It's awesome to see young people so forward focused!

I myself have half a dozen banks in the PDX metro area that are all small commercial under billion dollar banks that I can indeed call and get OREO list..