The Book on Flipping Houses by J Scott is a good pick for your flipping interests.

But that often means that one has to go and pick up the item themselves (some ads will say the owner will deliver for a small fee).   

Either way when your working with $300K that enough to pick up more than just one property if you use the loop holes and buy in the right area.

My recommendation is also get a pre-approval to see what you can afford, then define your investing goals, then pick your sub-market.

Then there's typically expenses like lawn maintenance, snowplowing, common area electric costs, the water bill and garbage pick up. 

It's freakin tough in the market today, but still a lot of success stories out there, and totally doable if the right actions are taken.My suggestion for you would be to call some investors and agents in the Grinnell area and pick their brains on who is in the market and what is a deal and what isn't a deal.

I would try and narrow down some criteria and that will help you pick a more specific market.

Hey @Matthew Edge what part of Ohio, I picked up a couple rentals in Toledo this year and looking for more.As far as Kissimmee, I've sold over a dozen STR's there this year and all of my clients are doing well.

I recommend you pick 3 areas(without obsessing over it- just choose your top 3, in the next couple of days), find 1 really good local investment/buyer realtor in each location- talk with them about returns and trends of the market, get pre-qualified with a great mortgage broker, and then see where the chips fall.

Everyone that is claiming "my freedoms" or "my rights" like to cherry pick the narrative to just their own point of view even though that exact same logic is what is used to justify the regulating in the first place.