Even if they're growing and understaffed at the moment, they must have a brother/sister/cousin/parent in town they could ask to help out with an open house style showing.

If none- you can go up 2.2%Unless they are evictable on other grounds- or you can buy them out- I would see if the numbers work where they are.Also- on those old buildings/homes you will find that any renovations can uncover a lot of other issues and costs can grow rapidly.Best of luck

Study them and decide on the one you will be putting all your efforts on.Lastly go ahead and look at the different options you have to start getting involved: Go and work for an established local (or not) that does what you want to do, become a member of an investor club where you can potentially partner up with experienced investors (you need to bring value), start deploying some capital into some passive opportunities to start learning the process, start buying some properties with your own capital and grow from there....I hope this is somewhat helpful.

I loved her books growing up so I canceled the auction.

And last, and more important, it takes time to compound earnings and grow them exponentially.

I'm looking to expand some more and continue to grow.

From the short amount of post reading we’ve done, we can definitely see the pool of knowledge available from other investors and hope as we learn and grow our business we can return the favor by helping other out also!

So I make around 35k a year(not much, almost minimum wage) and I’m looking to buy a property that can grow my income passively.

Then I have dry capital to rinse/wash/repeat as my portfolio grows.  

Wondering if locals are counting on the new FoxConn deal (Mount Pleasant) and if perhaps investing in those areas (18K new jobs) would be good: https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/2017/07/26/sco...I'm reading about a lot about the growing pains, but see recently that Racine has agreed to increase infrastructure (water) for the Foxconn development https://www.jsonline.com/story/money/business/2018...