(although that data advantage is shrinking as the big national players get more aggressive)Especially when you are just getting started, it can lend you some credibilityIf you choose the brokerage you join carefully, you may be in a position to learn a lot from your teamAside from these, there aren't many benefits.

In addition, you'll be networked with big players in your game.

@Marcello Oliveri, I agree with @Rich KnissThe zip code seems to transition from A/B on the far west side to C /D on the east side closer to Grandview.

This is painting with broad strokes of course, and exceptions can readily be found, but I'd peg it at a C/D area

Many CD investors break down their CDs to quarterly or even monthly maturities.

There is always the risk of loss but so far it has worked out well and allowed me to get some good returns and be a passive player in real estate.  

I had a semi pro football player living in a unit of mine and he ended up being addicted to hard drugs...it wasn’t steroids.

Recording Fees on my Closing Disclosure (CD) is lasted as follows:Deed: $130 Mortgage: $260 Total=$390Is this correct?

Seems like you are looking for someone who has a BRRR/ fix/flip model in a C-D neighborhood.

IN my mind these days any rental property under 100k is worth what someone will pay for it.. since literally NONE of them get sold to homeowners only investors.. so the valuations are backed into by rental income more like Cap rate for MF.. its what ever an investor is willing to pay for a given cash flow.Hi Jay,All of my areas in Toledo are heavily owner occupied.They are also all under $100,000.It's great to be here and we have had quite the monopoly for many years now.Hedge funds don't like us because we aren't a sexy city and everyone else followed LeBron to Cleveland heheWe put our head down and just hammered out deals.As inventory tightens nationwide (I don't remember having a conversation with other players where someone didn't cry to me about how they can't find product) we still feel like kids in a candy store.I'm buying the same stuff I was 5 years.Please don't tell anyone that deals at 30 cents on the dollar and 15% net cap rates are falling of trees here.You just have to do the work and deal with shady contractors lolThanks mate