Also try to attend as many local meetings as you can, and ideally build some relationships with folks in your area with lots of experience so that you can go to them with questions (can't emphasize enough what a huge difference that makes!!)  

All towns have rough neighborhoods and you want to make sure you have a good RE Agent and Property Manager that you trust, that can steer you away from things you wouldn’t ideally know if you’re not local to the neighborhood.

Ideally I’d like two single family homes and a duplex or triplex.

Ideally, we want to invest in Buy and Holds, but this flip will help generate a down payment for a buy and hold.

But ideally, at the end of the day, most of these people to get loans are all brokers and they are feeding their loans into the same product which is aFannie Mae, Freddie Mac product.

This helps us to get the ideal house, cash out with the diff. between raised funds and expenses (15 - 25 %) and offer 10 - 15% cash flow returns to investors. 

Ideally in C and B type neighborhoods and not in East Cleveland.

We mostly want it to pay for itself and hopefully make a small profit until we can retire and use it as a summer retirement home.As far as income and vacancy projections, a quick internet search uncovered 2 other similar cottages nearby with availability calendars and price rates for the next year.

Ideally, I’ll be buying the property in cash and pay for all fees involved w acquisition, then he’ll pitch in labor and material.

Ideally goal is to get your money out and then some?