It's getting close to Hurricane Season , Whats stopping you from repairing the roof yourself and submitting a Bill to them ?

@Kevin MasonNotes and lending to other established real estate investors can be a good way to passively grow the account balance.

@Gregory Jerome I think your three options are: 1) try harder to find a buyer, 2) buy it yourself, or 3) back out.If you're having trouble finding a buyer, and you're pretty sure a number of buyers have reviewed it, then it probably means it's not as much of as a deal as you thought it was.Usually that's because you over-estimated the ARV (after repair value), under-estimated the cost of the repairs, or both.If you think it's been reviewed by a good number of buyers, and you don't have the ability to close yourself, then you can back out.

I couldn't have survived financially without my other business along the way, but it also held me back from faster growth in Real Estate. 

How do I find information regarding overall city growth - job market, population growth, etc? 

My goal was to buy single family homes in distressed properties ( short sales, or NOD leads by calling home owners and seeing if they want to sell before they go into foreclosure)  in a growing population area with strong job growth and buy, add value , and rent them out for tiny bits of cashflow and wait for appreciation. 2 main questions I have at the moment. 1) How did you pick your market to buy your first investment? 

Many of them said that said that perhaps the most fulfilling benefit of being successful was having the ability/resources to give back.So I want to ask you all, successful and soon to be success men and women, how have you or how will you give back?

This is in a super high growth market and I bet in another 5 years this place will appreciate a ton more.Property 2: We live there now, but will probably move out in about a year or so. 15yr fixed at 3.15% bought 5 years ago at 650k.

We are buy and hold so our strategy is different however I think as a city to invest in Lynchburg is great..it is growing and Liberty University is just one of many employers (but it is huge and it is not going anywhere so it is driving massive growth) We look at other areas but we coming back to Lynchburg.

What do you think is the best strategy to employ my capital, ability and time here?