I'm seeing more and more interest and activity in Toledo real estate investing.No worries mate,Downtown seems to be blossoming but our "bread and butter" B class looks pretty much the same to me.I've heard from quite a few folks that the SFH market is getting "hotter" but I just don't see that happening.We still seem to be buying quite a lot of product without much competitionLow inventory for A class is great news and all multifamily deals have been snapped up.So to summarize, the market is much better than when I started 6 years ago lolGreat to see you contributing on here more frequentlyMuch success

What each of the aforementioned strategies may accomplish in order to reach this aim is briefly summarized here:Fix and Flips: Your initial capital could serve as a down payment and renovation fund for a single property to start.

Just to summarize the chain of events, There was reckless lending, housing over supply, stock market crash, layoffs, record high unemployment, high foreclosure rate and this went on for years. 

Micah - I think others have summarized well.

(Sorry accident hit post before I finished the sentence)Can you summarize how much you anticipate it would take off your principal over the next two years (as a dollar amount, AND as a percentage of your loan amount)? 

So to summarize, I would require one year lease term, but I would have very strict qualification standards. 

Originally posted by @Alice Chen:So to summarize:1.

Hi Alex,Welcome to the BP community... there is certainly a significant amount of information already posted in the blogs about what to look for when investing out of state.To summarize some of my favorite tips:Subscribe to the local business journal or news to see what is happening in terms of new businesses or investments in the area.Check out the rent to price ratio, and how many people rent versus own.Check out information on a tool like neighborhoodscout.com to find out aggregated information about a region.I think there is a lot you can learn about areas these days without physically visiting.

:I find it hilarious that everyone is assuming this lease is appropriate when they haven't even seen it, or even had it's contents summarized.  

One call that stood out (I'm paraphrasing and summarizing here):Caller: (after asking some basic info about the unit) What is the criteria to get the unit?