Find Brandon Turner anywhere on the internet for information on it.  

My biggest piece of advice would be to find someone who is in the position you would want to be in 10, 15, or 20 years and meet for coffee.

I think investing from Internet is pretty tough right now. 

Newer buildings now have state-of-the-art amenity packages with pools, gyms, co-working spaces, high-speed internet, and community gathering spaces where savvy property management groups will have apartment building events to encourage this sense of community, all being a level of convenience and neighborhood community people cannot get anywhere else.

Securing financing is often one of the biggest challenges new real estate investors face.

But in general, your biggest risks are not necessarily what's the maximum rent you can get, but can you find a reliable tenant that will always pay and pay on-time.

Biggest lesson I learned in this experience is to tell EVERYONE what you are doing/trying to do.

@Tamika Davis One of the biggest advantages of most software on the market is to complete these tasks you mention (maintenance, leases, rent collection, etc). 

You’re trying to ruin the biggest benefit of the life in flip. 

Quote from @Agatha Simmons: Uffda.One of the biggest mistakes landlords make is failing to stand up to a problematic tenant.