I'd suggest looking for houses that are the ugliest on the block in good areas (ie they are outdated cosmetically, but still have good bones and the major systems are still in good shape).I'd start with your VA loan since it's such an amazing benefit; you get your hands a little dirty and start to understand the buying process, and the landlord process as a rental owner (if you house-hack).

As is always the case over there each block is different as Weequahic has some very nice safe blocks and some really bad ones.  

We also will call the court and reserve a court date that’s 30 days out so that we don’t run into the situation where the block is full and we lose another 30 days because the courts only do evictions on certain days in the month.

It's hard to read the writings on it, going by what I can see and the terracotta color.

I own 14  properties right now, 11 are within 2 miles of my house in Uptown and the other 3 properties are 4 miles away in a great neighborhood and within blocks of where I go to church so I'm over there often enough. 

While it looks impressive to a client.....probably 40 pages of data, color graphs, etc.....it usually is a product of “garbage in, garbage out”.Personally, I used a simple spreadsheet and compared the subject property to all the comps, adjusting for sf, pools, garages, etc.  

Pick out a number of blocks to drive and look for abandoned properties.

In Maryland - Our tenant decided to touch up several walls with the wrong color paint.

I think you will save yourself some time and energy by only doing showings once a week within a 2 hour time block.

My wife and I are new to Louisville and own a house in Deer Park, a block away from Bardstown Rd, right off of Eastern Parkway.