I like to tell people that if you plan to be an investor who is flipping and holding all the time, on your flips just set aside 40% of the profit to be safe. 

I see people are getting a loan and investment capital to cover the property amount but then they drop 100k on renovations and they say they have $0 invested.

What is wrong with this website is the majority of people on this site have no idea how to evaluate risk.When you have 25 year old hot shots trying to brag about how easy real estate is only to see them go crying to mommy in five years when they are completely underwater and are like "oh me" - ask me how I know.

But the bills etc still have to get paid, from all the people clicking around on random websites. 

The MTR and STR would be more for travel nurses, corporate professionals instead of people vacationing.

People are retiring here.  

People commute for work to Muncie, Anderson, and Indianapolis.

Attend meetups and meet as many people in RE as you can.

This is the toughest way to start in Real estate, with over 95% of people failing.

Im not knocking these people, but there is a reason there are professionals around doing this all day long in the first place