Being that I am a truck driver blowing in the wind I have been home 30 days since October 1st when I started my driving career.

Replace dry wall in two bedrooms2.

And the homeowner thinks I am blowing hot air, so he is a bit pissy.. why..

There was also a leak evident with water damage to a ceiling drywall, but it was dry. 

dried in?

The list is literally endless.Not trying to dissuade you from investing locally, and with an FHA loan you can do some real damage with a house-hacked multi family in your local market, but I think once you start running numbers you'll find out, like I did, that the returns found in smaller, more "boring" Midwest and Southern markets will BLOW AWAY anything you'll be finding locally in those hot markets (well, Baaaahston and LA anyways.

It would make prospective tenant showings easier as if someone blows you off when finding a tenant, you didn't waste your time in driving over to the property to be stood up.  

Most who go down this road of hey if you have no money to start try wholesaling they blow what little money they have on marketing.. never close a deal or close one that took a whole year to do and never scale it and then they are back at their day job and there dreams are crushed.. where as same time and effort put into the industry and you have much wider net to cast and revenue streams to capture than just trying to talk a home owner into low balling them on the sale of a property... 

Originally posted by @Andrew LeBaron:If you have a ton of money to blow, train and hire a VA (preferably the Philippines)  to make offers all day long using Craigslist, other wholesale websites in your local area, etc...Andrew, could you elaborate on this a bit?

I am located in one of the hottest neighborhoods in Columbus and once I get this home renovated I want to jump into the multifamily arena and blow up!