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Trust your gutI have has great success with posting on Craigslist multiple times a day and Apartments.com, but not sure how your market responds on those sites. 

Capitalize on all of the free resources this site has available at your disposal.

I ride my motorcycle down your way a lot on the numbered curvy back roads.There is an all brick 2 family in Zanesville for the same price you posted above and it doesn't look like it needs a roof and it not a lot of work - just cleaned up.

Welcome to the site.

New cabinets, new carpet, granite throughout the house, new doors (not all), paint the interior, touch up trim, paint deck, pro cleaning, touch up landscaping.... they purchased it all cash half a year ago... ;)

Have you checked the county tax site to see what the actual taxes are? 

There's enough content on this site to last you a lifetime, but don't get too bogged down by all the info. 

Just do a lot of reading here on the forums and listening to podcasts and you will quickly turn up a dozen names to research further.You can also look at crowd-funding sites like Realty Mogul, Realcrowd,  Fundrise,  Arborcrowd.

On May 31st I go to clean out the home and take photos for my listing.