$15k is plenty to get you started if you do what I did.

You can avoid massive headaches and costly mistakes through some of the advice and experience on here, there’s plenty of pitfalls we made that you can avoid by reading and asking questions.Cleveland is one of the best turnkey market and the most popular for investors because of high rental demand and low cost of entry, property prices are pretty inexpensive here.

They invite professionals - officials (attorney general), to speak on topics relevant to the business.There are seasoned, experienced landlords that gladly give free advice and pointers.They have full time lobbyists to fight against the pervasive ‘tenants rights’ groups we continually have to battle.I attribute much of my success as a landlord to my involvement with a great association.

I'm sure this varies depending on location, but where I'm at there are plenty of quality tenants to be found without using the MLS.

I was just invite to investor meeting,I'm happy about that.

Move on...plenty of money out there. 

FYI this site says that it will work if you meet the following criteria"You can use this program if:you do not have a lawyer,you own less than 3 rental units,you are the owner and landlord of the premises,you are not a corporation or voluntary association,the premises is not rent regulated"Here is the link for Upstate NYhttps://www.nycourts.gov/court...This is the link for New York Cityhttps://www.nycourts.gov/court...The site has plenty of other do it your self information that can be found here https://www.nycourts.gov/court.... 

But either should be able to do what you need as you obviously have plenty of equity. 

The bare minimum I'd need it to appraise for is 240,000ish to get my .75 Loan to Value and payoff the original loan (I understand I'll leave plenty of the rehab $ in this deal, still learning).

I appreciate the invite, I'll be there!