the reason there is so much cheap-looking inventory for sale in PA and OH is because the housing stock is so old, and the rehabs are so gnarly. 

Apply a rental is so similar to buy a house.

This applies to my various holdings but also applies to RE where I use a professional PM and the units we self manage.In addition I am CTO of our LLC, wife is ceo (she is so much more but ceo sounds good).Also you never know when someone will be interested in partnering with you on some investment.Good luck

is so what lender did you use that provide non recourse loan?

During Covid there were many grant programs… but less now.Family is always a great go-to… but if there is no family you have to expand to find someone who can hopefully either offer financial assistance, or a program that can take her in as a resident, etc.Realistically she should be receiving social security, and perhaps if she is so low-income she may qualify for other government / charitable assistance.  

Going OOS is so much harder and very few do better than break even as Steve mentioned.

-The market is so volatile and are we buying at potentially a very bad time (I know we cant know this, but its still scary)Please let me know overall thoughts and things I'm missing.

There is so much information that at times it can feel like drinking from a firehose.

Summer turn is a tight stressful as is, so the more time our team has the better job we can do on preparing and updated units.

That said, my buyers list is so active that sometimes I’ll just pre-sell it without ever going to the MLS.One lesson I learned early—going too high on ARV purchases can kill you, especially if you don’t have multiple exit strategies.