@Account Closed Well said. I have made mistakes buying rental homes in Cleveland from my home in California. I followed the advice of someone (I actually met here on Bigger Pockets) who lives in Cleveland, who was "supposedly" helping me. Turns out, he was only helping himself, collecting my rent for me, rarely ever communicating, and keeping my rent money. Since then, I've learned so much! I still have my first little duplex (C/D neighborhood), my back unit tenant is great, and I have self-managed from afar ever since. I now have MANY trusted "boots on the ground" there, spent The entire month of March there renovating another home and I really like Cleveland for rentals, and even fix and flips, but you REALLY need to know your areas and I advise staying away from those C/D areas only because it's really hard to find good people who would even want to live there.
