I visited Fort Wayne this past weekend to research the neighborhoods and get a feel for the market.

If you buy a property with 20% down, and the investment appreciates 5% a year and cash flows $200/Mo, in 4 years you'll have made over double the cash you invested.If you're looking OOS, prices in Columbus are still low enough to find 1% rule deals and there's a ton of appreciation happening in this market as well.

Start by reading the Ultimate Real Estate Investing Guide: https://www.biggerpockets.com/guides/ultimate-real-estate-investing-guide/introduction2.

@Jody MartinezYou can pull the permits typically for the GC but not for trade permits. but if you do the work are you going to disclose this when you sell that you hired unlicensed contractors and notify your insurance if same?

Hi @Suhael AhmedIf I have any recommendations for you it would be to used this website.

What made you interested in investing in this type of deal?

If you invite the government into your business, you get the good and the bad.2) In my experience,(and I may get some hate mail for this) the average section 8 resident is harder on the property. 

The husband would like to stay and get a roommate.My question for you is would this give us grounds to discontinue their lease if they need to move in another person to be able to afford it?

Purchase price: $120,000 Cash invested: $25,000Our latest Flip, this was a pre- foreclosure lead.

Luke Carl talks about this in his podcast here .