Developing a relationship with the players at the bank would help if the properties aren't listed yet.

Some major corporate players have invested in Pittsburgh and our city has become the testing ground for Uber's driverless car service.

A small investor cannot shake off personal liability, an LLC will not protect you if you were the principal player.

There are a lot of shady players! 

If there are lots of sales with relatively short DOM in that price range then it wouldn't be a red flag for me.

Actually one house by the SCSU campus is listed for $135k with gross rent income $18k and is leased through May 2019 to some players from the football team.

I have aspirations of building a real estate portfolio that will lend itself to long-term wealth generation.I'm currently looking to meet real estate players in my area, so a friend of mine immediately recommended I get on BiggerPockets.

@Kris BensonMy Organization & I put on a few that are focused specifically on Self Storage - both our Private Money & Syndication Summit (How to raise all of the money that you'll ever need for Self Storage), as well as an advanced Self Storage Mastermind (connecting A-Player's both Self Storage Investors & the Capital.) 

Residential properties typically do not trade based on a cap rate, but rather based on the sales numbers of comparable properties.although I think this phenomena of every day investor buying SFRs as rentals and then neighborhoods turning to rental dominated IE majority rentals.. cap rates/ or COC return with 20% down tend to drive what folks will pay.. but everyone has different expense projections … but in these areas there simply is no homeowners buying them so comps tend to be all the sales between investors .where as if I sell a 450k new construction and some just happens to rent it.. but 20 others are all owner occ.. no one is going value that home based on income .. or GRM  .. not sure if I am making sense..

Maybe there needs to be a 3rd player or even more.