@Anson Young Thanks - I agree that it will be tough to find something affordable in the BP HQ.  

There was a whole thread on OHIO wholesaling and how OHIO is getting tough on this activity.

That's a tough 1 MichaelYou are new to real estate land lording so it will be a learning curve.  

So unless you have a boatload of cash you can leave in your deals, its going to be really tough to grow a portfolio with any reasonable speed without using hard money.  

I hope you prove me wrong, because I would love to start investing in Illinois again.

Condo/ town home market is tough because there is an extra cost involve that always goes up, its bad enough with taxes.  

Finding places to live here is tough so the rooms are rented immediately as soon as one opens up. 

Finding the rehabber sounds like the tough part.

Tough crowd tonight @Matt Cramer I'll give you a bump as I'm curious to hear some responses.

It is exactly like you stated in one of your above posts they are worried that something will go wonky with the GC.. believe it or not its hard to find a GC that did not get bruised in the GFC so even though they are not the borrower banks look at GC creds and will not lend if the GC has got bad recent history.. ( not all banks but many) as well as construction to perm loans are pretty tough to get..