I don't know about OK, but here in MA, the offer to purchase and the P&S can be signed digitally, but final closing docs must be wet-signed (ink).

We have grown quite rapidly in Ohio (Columbus and Cincinnatti), and have doubled our portfolio size again in the last year.

Initially, optimizing appreciation may seem counterintuitive, but property values will rise faster than you can accumulate income in a rapidly appreciating market.

I scan the adds regularly and always keep a few as spares on hand for when needed.

How about in the Cedar Rapids area?

I picked his brain a lot with how to get started.I then found Joe V. and the folks at the Ann Arbor REI club, which really saved me from a bad deal early on and helped to get my education on par very rapidly.  

So it allowed them to scale rapidly and to have the income and cash flow to hire full time maintenance  and a leasing agent. 

I would say both cities are growing with the surrounding suburbs expanding rapidly.

Institutional lenders tend to deal much more harshly with them.Depending upon the specific area of the country, non-owner-occupied house loans are virtually non-existent or difficult to get.Bankers seem to have a blind spot when it comes to the interests of the speculator in EXISTING houses.While it might be routine to make 100% construction loans to builders and developers (although these, too, are drying up rapidly), the thought that someone might want to make a 90% or 80% loan to purchase an investment turns otherwise jovial Mortgage Loan Officers into pinch-faced misers.They suddenly forget long standing banking relationships and outstanding credit histories, mumbling about money being tight and bank policy being restrictive at the present time.What then is the solution?

You may however need to have someone scan through the prints you buy and make sure they line up with what the codes are in your jurisdiction.