I have about 50k sitting in the bank now and i have decided i want to make the money work and grow for me to reach my goal to move. my brother in law and i have decided we would like do a couple of home flips in the Tampa area were he lives so i a can reach my goal of savings faster. 

@D Turner by law, they have to present every offer to a homeowner, so im not quiet sure thats the case

They foreclose on properties and sit on them (shadow inventory) until they have to move them.  

@Kevan Davidson I would suggest you ALL sit down with a RE lawyer and talk about the corp structure.

Personally I quit having reserves once I got to 5 properties and at 12 it would be too much money sitting around.

Deals aren't just sitting on the MLS all the time.

It might cost you money, but sitting on it does nothing and doesn't move you forward or teach you anything.

More rural than anything as it sits between Tampa and Orlando.

I'm game...A snip-it from a post I did on this thread about investing in Wisconsin: Milwaukee is sitting on some of the most affordable housing in the country, is adjacent to one of the largest freshwater lakes in the world, has entertainment & food that rivals every major metro, it's sports teams bat way above average for a small market which attracts hundreds of thousands if not millions of people here annually, economic development has been happening at a level unprecedented since the '50s (we are breaking ground on the world's largest mass timber building in June), has a tech ecosystem on the ground floor of attracting major talents with partners from the fortune 500 companies in town... 

You'd be surprised by the number of people willing to just sit down and chat.