Cheap stinky greedy little bastards that will throw you under the bus if they can make a dollar from doing so.

Look into marketing and wholesaling - Fairly cheap barrier to entry and can build capital pretty quickly.2.

Unfortunately these areas are also going to have higher operating costs in terms of vacancy and repairs, so you will have to walk the line of making sure the property has a cheap enough price to rent ration, but isn't in a bad area that eats up cash flow in other ways.

What might be "Cheap" due to NYC and NJ Comparables might be overpriced for Buffalo.

Also, living in a high cost of living area like Hawaii makes it comparatively cheap to travel to other locations like since your dollar goes much farther.

I'd just be careful in buying in the real cheap places like Linden and Hilltop.

I can get low-end carpet installed for $1/sf, so it's a fairly cheap, temporary floor covering.I wouldn't use it in a long-term buy & hold rental, or in a house that didn't have original hardwoods - for those, I'd use vinyl plank or even wood-look sheet vinyl (there's one I've installed that people always think is actual wood till they look very closely.

He is not cheap but he saves us money every year without being aggressive enough to ever have resulted in an audit. 

There are properties there that you can get very cheap, put 20-30k into them and sell them for a 20-30k profit.

Especially if the MFR is 3-4 units...meaning $100k is an extremely cheap MFR.