Definitely that was money making time in terms of operations and appreciation as well.Things have changed now, there is so many STRs now that people are renting for 100-150 USD a night which is like a motel price.Now it may make sense from the perspective of, if Poconos is where you travel a lot with family or you are buying full cash to park the money, or tax strategy or various other personal reasons could be there where it might make sense to invest there.But coming in from the perspective of an investor who are new or have little experience and are trying to build wealth from not too heavy asset portfolio.

Not entirely sure what avenue of real estate investing I want to take yet so I've been reading lots of books on the different strategies.

I am wondering what is a typical budget for a live-in flip.

Ive been investing in DC for 15 years and never heard of them.

I’m 18 fresh out of high school, I’m trying to start a real estate investing company and I need a lot of guidance, any help is greatly appreciated.

Im new to real estate investing and have a question concerning my first property.

However, the property I'm looking at is larger than other houses, and to make it a viable investment, I'd need to rent it out for about $2,600 per month.My concern is that anyone renting this property could instead take out a mortgage on the same house, with monthly payments exceeding $2,000.

A third party likely purchased that debt from the original lender (uncollectible by typical debt collector standards) for pennies on the dollar. 

My options usually include the all cash/quick close to flip myself, listing it (as an agent) but also offering the seller to do a JV flip together, I could wholesale it, offer to buy it myself for a BRRRR or other long term personal investment, etc. 

That "is" one of the problems investing so far away.