As an investor i am seeking to purchase a fixer upper properties in these location Ohio , Dallas , Indiana any advice where i can find reliable contractors that can do a fixed bid job and also job on time if you know of anyone please advice.

You should look into the fha 203k loan for a fixer upper.

Where as in your markets there is substantial activity off MLS .. and with sales prices all over the board.The markets in my mind are so totally different that they could be in different countries.On the West coast we sell our properties in the MLS through brokers. 95% of the time. were as in the lower end mid west upper east coast you have a huge amount of sales off market and for prices all over the map.In our market homes no matter the condition sell for 90 to 120% of listed price...

I mean there were som decent fixer upper foreclosures that where going from 10k to 30k.

Here are the firm facts it is a fixer upper, it has 2- one bedroom one bath apartments and 1- three bedroom one bath apartment the asking price is 179500 and it is right down the street from the college in soldotna alaska a one bedroom apartment in Soldotna goes for about 800$ on avarage and I'm looking at a fha loan with 3.5% down and an intrest rate of 3.75% also I'm going to be using a property manager who charges 10%.

It can be rental properties or small fixer upper properties or combination of both.  

They were losing money because the upper unit was vacant for 8 months and they wanted out.  

Zoning is proving to make this not a possibility, so now I am planning to move into one of the units and build a standalone garage.The duplex is an upper/lower split, both units in need of some heavy renovation but making good enough money as they stand now that the purchase was a good deal.

So I want to leverage these 2 properties to get 4 more properties.If I use that 85k to pay cash for 4 fixer uppers and bring the value up and have rents of at least 750 a month each.So that would be 3k plus 850 plus 795=$4645I would use my cash for the rehabs and just get them rent ready with fresh paint and flooring.so go into debt to be able to collect 4600 a month for only a debt of 80k.Am I thinking this out right. 

Our first house was a "personal" property used with a va loan so we out no money in it other than 1k ish for inspections / misc. it was a fixer upper so we put about 12k fixing it up.