does anyone know of a minimum purchase price rule to buy investment properties in Pennsylvania.

They have a lot of power (and perhaps overstep it as well), so it will be hard to work around their rules.

If you rent it for 3 more years that may not apply.

You can always go to your bank and have them send a denial letter for the loan, saying that they will not lend you the money due to the property not appraising for the value originally applied for. they then have no case against you and also have to return your earnest money.

In the meantime, my short term goal is to own 2 properties (multi family, that meet the ~2% rule - more specifics to come) by the end of 2019. 

Once you know this you can run the same drill as applied to the retail.

Door Hangers work my Dad did this in the 60s and 70s he bought his own printing press and guess who ran it after school.then he would go down to the salivation army Sat morn at 6 am and pick up those exiting the facility.. these guys would put out about 500 flyers a day for 20 bucks.. you could do it with highschool kids today. he put out 20,000 a week.. and then the 1% rule followed  200 leads  then 20 sales..

Is there an industry rule of thumb?

Will I be held to the same "10 loan" rule.

Any advice would be helpful, Ghostbusters, new or old, need not apply.