i am married, my wife  [ 60 y/o ] is also disabled due to no kidneys and is on Home Hemo Dialysis, but she spends hours everyday looking through real estate , and though we have found several great oppurtunities, we have no been able to capitalise on them due to out low income and crummy credit ,  [although when i moved here i had 621 score until when I tried to refi through Loan Depot, they really messed me up and I am not sure what my score is now.]I think the first thing I need to do is repair my credit as best as I can, as well as see what kind of assets and value I have to help me get the investing process going. [ kinda long story packed with lessons there]  Due to a small windfall we have $5,000 earmarked for beginning real estate investing in hopes of getting our of our crushing poverty trench.I want to begin by doing non rehab wholesaling,  but am also wondering if Tax Lien investing might allow me more bang for my few bucks. 

Thanks so much for your help everyone, that's exactly what I was looking, seems like the severity of the flood is not as bad as I think.

Several types of foreclosures - bank, tax, hoa etc.

I haven't been in the area for several years but I had good luck with rentals in Dassel and Buffalo.

You have several things going against you.1) The property is vacant. 

I've been absent from the forums due to finishing my master's thesis, which interrupted me in the start of my search several months back in the Des Moines area for a cash-flowing rental possibility.Now that I've turned in the thesis (yaaaay!!!)

A friend of mine has an investor that loves to buy in that area because they own several homes. 

Im currently looking at several condos roughly around $30000 each is list price.

Not to mention you would likely need to work as a licensed Real Estate Agent for several years before you are legally allowed to open your own brokerage and offer Property Management to 3rd parties.

We have another post on someone who has a few million in gain and can't afford to sell and buy a similar property since the tax bill would be several hundred thousand.