Tough neighborhoods still, but plenty of fixer uppers and low cost plots make it ideal for scrappy individual investors looking to get started on the cheap.

What led you to start the process with them?

We have rentals in places that do not snow but are thinking of investing in Columbus, a place that gets snow every year. 

I’ll keep diligently searching until something comes along that we believe makes sense.My mom and I started a business in California after we were told “don’t bother it’s an over saturated market“ and “it’s too difficult“.

My current goal is to start with house hacking and move on to long-term single-family rentals.

Many municipalities have setup phone number for people to report violators.If you find a place, call the city and find out the rules for that exact address.

It was fantastic for networkingI don’t know for sure, but it seems like at around the same time that BiggerPockets started hosting its own conferences and advertising boot camps and such that it became harder and harder to find where on the website that you could find local meetups.This morning I searched the website to try to find where local meetups were posted on the website and it took me between 5 and 10 minutes to find it.

This perception will change quickly once Tesla starts selling it's robots next year.

Per my research, Kauai seems to be a good place to invest compared to the other island, would love to get your feedback.

This sounds like it would allow me to file an LLC, report on Schedule C, and then have my inevitable losses start to offset my W-2 income.