How important is focusing on one location

[Robert Dabicci]

Hello I'm looking to buy my first investment property and I'm wondering how important it is to focus on 1 area. My job won't allow a lot of hands on property management so I intend on hiring a property management company. Should I really be focusing in 1 city so I can have the same company manage all of my properties. I'm afraid of investing in a smaller town 30-45 minutes outside of my home city of Kalamazoo, then finding my next property 45 minutes on the other side of the city and ending up with properties spread all over southwest Michigan.