WorthReason:Seems the market is much better and higher cash flow more realisticUse to live in Dallas and still visit one weekend per monthGF lives in Dallas and her mom is a property manager and Dad has a renovations business so they can help with various tasks.Any thoughts/discussion/experience on investing outside of where you live would be helpful too.

I'm taking a first look this weekend since I am out of state, but my broker took a look and said it seems turn key.

It is a holiday weekend here in Canada, the traditional start of summer.

You can always look around the papers online or print versions and look at Craigslist and stuff like that.You can also just drive around on the weekend and follow the signs.

My tenant and his friend who is a roofer are going to do it this weekend.

Went to Fayetteville, NC to see property this weekend.

I'm sure they get a ton of calls from "investors" that just went to a weekend seminar and are just wasting their time.

I will look at the comps again over the weekend.

We can do most ourselves by going and camping out a few weekends, or even having DH take a week off work, but there will be a few things we hire out.

The only property that sold for less than the ARV was a foreclosure that sold for 55K...everything else was well over $100KThe comps were all similar in constructionI would say this is more or a owners area than a rental area...but many of the properties are weekend vacation property.