Real Estate Investors

Rental property, buy-and-hold, and off-market opportunities across Northwest Ohio — evaluated by a Realtor who also runs the area's estate and land auctions.

Northwest Ohio isn’t a hot investor market in the way people mean when they talk about hot markets — and that’s part of the appeal. Prices are lower, competition is thinner, and a buy-and-hold rental can cash-flow here in ways it often can’t in a bigger metro. The tradeoff is that you need someone who actually knows which towns have steady rental demand and which don’t, because a generic online market report won’t tell you that.

Where Dave’s auction background matters

A meaningful share of the investment opportunities in this region don’t start as a normal listing — they start as an estate being settled, a landlord retiring out of a rental portfolio, or farmland changing hands between generations. Because Dave is also a licensed auctioneer handling real estate, farm, and estate auctions across Ohio and Indiana, he’s frequently in rooms and conversations where that kind of property surfaces before it’s broadly marketed. If you tell him what you’re looking for — a certain price range, property type, or area — he can flag it when something matching comes across his desk.

What Dave actually helps with

Dave isn’t a property manager, and he’s not going to run your underwriting spreadsheet for you. What he does provide: an honest read on comparable rents and typical vacancy for a specific area, a straight assessment of a property’s condition and what it’ll likely need, and local knowledge of which Williams, Defiance, Fulton, and Henry county towns hold rental demand better than others. That’s the difference between a cash-flow estimate built on local reality and one built on assumptions.

Working with investors who don’t live here

A lot of the investor inquiries Dave gets come from people who don’t live in Northwest Ohio and are buying based on price point alone. That’s fine — but it means leaning on someone who can tell you the difference between two towns that look identical on a spreadsheet but perform very differently as rentals. That local read is the main thing an out-of-area investor is paying for when they work with a local agent instead of browsing listings remotely.

The bottom line

Investing in a market you don’t live in only works if you have someone on the ground who’ll tell you the truth about a property and the area around it — not just close the deal. That’s the role Dave plays, backed by both his brokerage work and his visibility into the area’s auction pipeline.

Frequently Asked Questions

Does Dave bring off-market deals to investors before they're publicly listed?

Sometimes. Because Dave also runs real estate and estate auctions across the region, he's often aware of upcoming property before it hits the open market — a farm being settled through an estate, a landlord retiring out of a rental portfolio, and similar situations. There's no guaranteed pipeline of off-market deals, but investors who let Dave know what they're looking for get first notice when something matching comes up.

Can Dave help evaluate rental cash flow on a property?

Yes. Dave can walk through comparable rents, typical vacancy for the area, and rough operating costs so you have a realistic cash-flow picture rather than a spreadsheet built on optimistic assumptions. He's not a property manager or accountant, so for detailed underwriting he'll point you to the right local resources — but the first-pass numbers conversation is something he does regularly.

Does Dave work with out-of-state or first-time investors who don't know Northwest Ohio?

Regularly. Rural Ohio markets don't behave like the coasts or bigger metros — price points are lower, but so is the renter pool in some areas, and local knowledge of which towns have steady rental demand versus which don't matters more than a generic market report. That's exactly the gap Dave fills for investors buying somewhere they don't live.

Can Dave help with a 1031 exchange timeline?

Yes — Dave can move on your timeline for both the sale and the replacement purchase, which is the part that actually matters for a 1031 exchange. He'll coordinate with your qualified intermediary and accountant on the compliance side, since that's their expertise, not his.