I found this website www.searchbug.comand I will give them a try with a small list and see what they are about.

I am trying to help my brother in law find a reasonable place- he is going thru a divorce. 

Get all the parties on a conference call.I tried, and believe it or not, title company flat out refused to join a conference call with the accounting firm.  

I am trying to get an asset based loan my fiance and I don't have the best W2 incomes but we have enough assets to foot the bill. 

Once you get some experience under your belt then if you still want to invest out of state then try one OOS rental and see where it goes.

Just trying to start a conversation.  

I’d focus on trying to land this deal and getting it set up to lower your current housing payment as opposed to being able to just generate a deal that totally pays for you entirely from a duplex.

with that said, i totally agree with you that trying to math your way to a market makes no sense.

I am trying to get interest only loan to scale my portfolio and increase my cash flow.

Colorado seems to be an outlier, look what they did with trying to take Trump off the ballot.