is there a difference in terms of valuing or targeting different ranges of units per property?

It's usually best for new investors to target slow pays and delinquent or pre foreclosure as you can work out a deal with the borrower before you actually buy.

I'm just starting to market for motivated sellers and I have a question regarding the amount of people and areas I should target with my direct mail campaign.

Private equity funds will target an annual rate of return in the 20-30% range, while I think a rehabber will want a much higher return on a house rehab.

Many of the targets are investors themselves and -- especially if you use a vague yellow letter mailing -- will call just because they're curious who you are and what you're doing.Not saying it doesn't work -- we had a sample size of only 1000 mailings -- but you should expect a lower lead:response ratio than for typical distressed mailings...

I was wondering if you would evaluate a rental property the same way in a college town where you have new tennants usually once a year as you would when targeting regular tennants.In New Brunswick, NJ, landlords do yearly leases june 1 to june 1, and the rents are very high compared to regular rentals to non-college kids.

Pardon the pun, but right on target, atarget.

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Every target market is unique.History is not reliable predictor of the future.

In fact my wife and I both currently work in tech careers in San Francisco and J's story is a huge inspiration to us.Oh yeah, I've also listened to 22 of the 32 BP podcasts, in order, over the past 4-5 weeks whenever I get a chance (I probably could recite the podcast intro and outro in my sleep :).Anyhow, like J and his wife, my wife and I are both from back east (she's from Pittsburgh, I'm from Detroit), we just got married and we have a plan to spend a few more months in the Bay Area to shore up our startup capital before making the move back east to start a fix and flip and (and eventually buy and hold) business.I would love to get everyone's insight on the 3 markets we're considering settling and investing in -- as you can see each has its plusses and minuses but for us they all have to be weighed against the business opportunity:Our likely 1st choice: Pittsburgh -- prices here seem to be in the range we'd be looking for (average home price just over $100K, so our target purchase range would be $30-60K, with rehabs running about the same, though my numbers could be way off...); additionally there seems to be a good rental market here.