Looking at Multi Family properties in Lehigh Valley area as it is in close proximity to me and I cant seem to find the returns I am looking for in Philadelphia area any more.

Purchase price: $100,000 Cash invested: $60,000 Sale price: $235,000 3 bed / 1 bath SFR built in 1975 on a 0.18 acre level parcel, in a older neighborhood near a popular river "beach".

Some luck in the north valley with a new build, a single family with a decent return.

And I also spent about $10k more in other miscellaneous upgrades and things such as concrete driveway, river rock landscaping, etc.

If you’re looking for where to land and buy a primary to house hack, it really depends on a few key things that are specific to you: job location, budget, family/schools if applicable, preferences as far as being walking distance to restaurants vs. at the end of a long dirt road with acreage, plains or mountains, hobbies, lifestyle, skiing/snowboarding, rivers, climbing, mountain biking, fishing, hunting, single or married, spirituality (looking at you Crestone) etc.

To this day I can not understand why they put a big box store that has no windows or does not incorporate the River at ALL and placed it on the river and then set back their condo building to a street with a view of a weed infested courtyard and a water fountain that is the size of a kiddie pool and only took 10-15 years or so to finish.   

well as it relates to earthquakes some of the most valuable real estate in the country sits squarely on the San Andreas fault.think silicon valley right through Palo Alto  and SF..

Lots of new money going in near the downtown and lots of clean up and new construction on the river front.

It backs up to a river, has a great back yard and the inside is in decent shape. 

I used a bank(Huntingdon valley bank) the first go round and since my credit is 760s and my finances are ok I just thought that it might be easiest to go through a bank again.