One of the main reasons i'm looking to get into real estate investing is because you are providing your community with distressing properties and adding new occupants and continue raising value of properties in the area.One situation that really caught my attention was a investment property that happened right across the street from my home.an investor or someone bought the property for like 140k and just resold in less than year for 450k.it needed some work but nothing out of this world.roof,kitchen,flooring,A/C,paint,clean up pool.How can an individual at the age of 24 get started with no credit or money down?

The basement is pretty much a separate apartment with its own kitchen.

Currently leased for $1200 and I get 1-2 tenant requests per week, so it is a very secure rental area/property.3bd, 2bath, with an office that could be a 4th. big yard. brand new everything. foundation, AC, roof, fence, floors, kitchen, bathrooms, security system, etcAny help of suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

In my experience, you can generally find space in Philly row homes to add a half bath on the first floor off the kitchen or living space. 

I also have an excellent GC as well as an investor client (I'm an agent) who I've become good friends with that is helping me with this project.As a selling point for the investors, I offered to escrow 6 months taxes, insurance and interest payments at closing as I think this should cover me for the time to complete the rehab.I'm planning on gut rehabbing the property (kitchens, bathrooms, electrical, plumbing, new gas boiler, insulation, roof, windows, flooring) and renting it to section 8 tenants in my area.

so I ended up purchasing a 31' with a 13' bump out for the living room and kitchen ..IF I had started small orignally I'd have wasted a lot of time and $$ .. 

The hard wood floors were all salvageable and the beech cabinets from Menard's worked out PERFECTLY, in my opinion :).Living Room (Before)Living Room (After)Kitchen (Before)Kitchen (After)Bedroom (Before)Bedroom (After)I apologize that they aren't the same angle of pictures as the before pics.

As shown in pictures here, the backyard door needs to be replaced with trim and also some damage in kitchen area.Any advice/suggestion on going ahead with this deal?

You might check out this similar thread. http://www.biggerpockets.com/forums/67/topics/155268-best-source-for-kitchen-cabinets

My wife and I Rehabbed the property by knocking down walls, remodeling bathrooms, redoing the kitchen, replaced roof, added new flooring, and some other stuff over the last 2.5 years we have lived there.We found a great tenant (hopefully) to Rent the house from us by utilizing the guides and info here on BP.