Moving to the New Orleans area and changing careers to the oil industry has put me in a good market with solid income to more readily achieve my ambitions of supplementing my income and eventually replacing it through cash flowing rentals and flips.  

@Tracy Dickerson   I represent/work with quite a few private/hard money lenders - ones that have been around for 10+ years with a solid track record that are local to PA/NJ/NY. 

Purchase price: $113,000 Cash invested: $80,000 Very ugly purchase with very solid bones.

I work a 40 hr/ week job remotely and have solid savings to build a team and start investing as soon as I am established.

For something that small, anything under 5% with a 25 yr AM and a 5 year balloon will be solid.  1% origniation fee.  

Pick a solid B-Class suburban area.

@Joe Krug Solid posts and advice from Chris, Don, and Ian above.

I have contacted my loan officer and realtor to get some solid numbers to consider.

The prices look pretty good from afar, and the other demographics look pretty solid (job growth, population growth, crime decrease, etc) Is anyone out there buying and holding in Columbus??

The winters here are not bad at all, I grew up in upstate NY so I have pretty solid perspective on bad winters.