-------------------Think about my father when you think about how badly you need 20 grand and how unimportant acquiring the knowledge to make successful real estate investments is.

It’ll hold up for a season but over time it’s going to start to look bad.

Bad credit precludes lenders that you suggest.. 

If you send your mail using standard mail with no return postage, you have no way of measuring how many addresses were bad.

Buying properties in bad areas?

Stay away from the bad areas-haha-and screen your tenants extra well.

You made a series of poor Choices but you did make one good move in all this and that is you have a short term lease .

Hello BP, I am new to investing, I live in Akron, Ohio I'm looking for feed back on what type of housing are considered if you were a cash buyer, or real estate investor for rentals, fix flip, or sale, what areas would be a good choice if you had to pick?  

You won't find much in the sub $100K space unless you don't mind 50ies or 60ies shack that needs everything and is located in a bad area.Why do you oppose to mortgages?

Those goals are important, and you shouldn't put yourself into a BAD deal, just to get into a deal - but - I feel very much like I'd rather get in with relatively poor CCR, just so I can start the train moving down the tracks.