Spend time finding PM’s or Properties first?

[Lauren Coles]

My fiancé and I are looking to get into multi-family investing, but not sure how to take the first step. One thing that has come up quite often in trainings, books, webinars, etc is it’s almost more important to find a good property manager than a good property (especially as out of state owners). We live in ND but we are open to properties all over the country AS LONG AS we can find a good property manager. 

What is your opinion on the subject? Should we continue looking at units around the country and then hope there’s a good property manager around? Or should we invest our time finding a decent property management company and then finding units around their area?