My strategy right now is to flip a couple of houses to generate revenue but ultimately I want rental properties.Right now I have found some foreclosed houses on Zillow.

Random things like doc prep, prepaid escrow, school taxes, inspections, flood certs, title company, attorney fees, etc etc. it adds up quick unless you can snag some seller help.

Your short term holds are basically generating risk so why have them in the same legal entity as a long term asset.The strategy to put every long term hold in a separate LLC is up for debate as you can read in here in bp.

Random and unscientific methods produce unreliable results.

The house came back appraised at the same value as when the original loan was generated.

Yes....of course if you can generate your own off market leads those are probably the best ones, but they take time and money working your lists.  2nd best I've found is MLS. 

So I took it up on my self to call and have the electric put in my name cause I knew what he meant by shouting **** down around here..So we went all weekend thinking since the guy came Friday and talked with him and he knew what was going on and he knew cause this was his 3rd time to deal with norma and will roberts that he wasn't turning it off cause there wasn't no bang out here they were going to be working . they were just trying to force us out and make us leave and leave hafe of ourvstuff here cause he had already had the locks changed on the shop were all our tools were and our other things that we had stored in there.but in oklahoma I did know what I could do about any of this cause now ive came home to a generator running my house to keep lights going anf my freg amd things and ive got the shitvthatvthe hole world is scared of.so I'm corninten to this place for at least 3 weeks the earliest . and I'm not wantingvtobhere this noisy thing that long.

Have you read a Random Walk Down Wall Street?

This is such an overlooked practice, with many listings throwing up photos in a random order where someone unfamiliar with the space has literally no idea what room they're looking at. 

Here's what I've got on local markets around Hartford County, CTThis is by no means an attempt to push anyone into any market, but rather just some generally vague thoughts.Windsor is a great "small town" that generates good cashflow with moderate chances of appreciation (relative to the CT Market)Granby even a smaller town feel than Windsor, rentals are in high demand and rent prices are high.