Think Cleveland's golden ticket is a cheap house? Most investors do until they're 500 miles away trying to verify work from pictures that don't match reality. In Cleveland, the bar is so low that showing up when you say you will, doing exactly what you said you'd do, and taking responsibility when you screw up makes you a unicorn because basic is not common. You can have results or you can have excuses, and there is no shortage of excuses when no one is there to verify the work, you're forced to decide in the dark, and that's how an out-of-state investment bleeds. You shouldn't have to sell before you know your best option. if your contractor's pictures looked fine but the job site didn't, how would you know who to trust?