If you're a new investor and something like the HVAC goes out it could cost $5k, if you only have $50 in cashflow every month you'll never get ahead enough to have a buffer for big ticket items that could happen before you expect them to.

Well I guess I will go ahead and started advertising it!

I just want to know ahead of time that the city has an abundance of values that fit my criteria (as opposed to the occasional deal), so that's why I'm posting the question.  

If you can make this someone else's problem, instead of your problem, you will come out way ahead in the future.

I checked out auction.com and it's pretty neat, go ahead and take a look.Good luck!

Wow, you're planning well ahead with your move in 2 years! 

Just a heads up, some insurance companies will not insure houses with Galvanized.

This rule is that you should look at 100 properties, you should make offers on 10 properties, and of those offers maybe 3 will be accepted, then go ahead and purchase 1 property.

You've got to move on from issues that you run into so that you can keep pushing ahead to finding the solutions.We all experience difficulties along the way...

So I went ahead and made the Meetup Page - Its called Fresno  Bigger Pockets Meetup and here is the link: http://www.meetup.com/Fresno-Bigger-Pockets-Meetup...I put up a poll so you can let me know what days works best for you - please join the group  and take the poll so I can get a meeting on the calendar as soon as possible.