I didn't think of that.

We went into to the banks main office on Xmas eve 2009 thinking that we were there to renegotiate the terms of our renewal.

I think starting small and trading up is a great strategy! 

How lenders think, how attorneys think, how judges think, and how the system works.

I'm curious to what everyone thinks. 

I was thinking to try to pick my market and then find good connections, but it does make much more sense to build that up first and have people there to give me additional info. 

Think 10 years down the road and you will likely make better decisions. 

I agree with Nicholas, I think you can build a very basic query that collects info from submitters, and then returns results based on one data set, like geo.

I think you are in the right mind set however with the out of state investing - its much easier in this day and age and NY is not a great place to get started in this type of investing

I’ve flipped in the dc area for years, right now there is just money & in the vast majority of cases there is high likelihood of losing money, right now the best investments in the area imo are buy & hold, I’ve even gone full circle and while I really liked value add for most of the last decade I think in a lot of ways new construction especially in more affordable markets (I’m personally a big fan of the eastern shore market) is a much better way to make money long term than flipping and brrring while I know they are sexy & certainly you getting a huge paycheck is great, there just isn’t any money in it right now, especially in nova.