The laws are landlord friendly and each of these markets are very affordable

We have several vendor business members in the title space that are very investor friendly.

You can do that with friends or family.

Are you reserving for cap ex, maintenance & vacancy?

I make it back a few times a year to Rochester as I still have family there.All of our friends and family are from Rochester.

I have a friend/neighbor that wants to sell me his house below market value so he can move back into an apartment and travel.

Unless you are going to be staying at the place, I would leave it as pet friendly.

I have seen all sides of this equation, self managing my own properties locally, but moved with the Navy 1000 miles away and managed the same rentals from afar, and had friends here in Memphis that had 18 properties and had them all with PMs with varying levels of success, some bad and some great.Self-managing brings about an additional level of responsibility that most of the time is fine, but that is not what you hire a PM for.

Now I'm selling using word of mouth as there is a network of investors friends/family are spreading the word to.

My first property was chaotic with tenant troubles, so Ohio being a landlord-friendly state and Parma Heights being A-class location, I'm eager to get involved and experience the difference.