These goals should be very simple:1 - You need to pay off all your personal debt2 - You want to have enough passive income to cover all you monthly bills3 - You want to accomplish this by a specific date.4 - You want to have fun doing this.Once you set these numbers, you "reverse engineer" from there, establishing as series of groups (elements of the steps above) called "measurable milestones".  

@Jay Gousman @Shaye Mann You both have numerous investment options/strategies in the Phoenix metro market, so many in fact that it can be overwhelming for new investors to narrow down what they want to do.

Most streets are laid out on a grid, and all the major ones running North/South are alphabetical one way and the East/West are numerical.  

I posted numerous times about how everyone and their mothers are in the game with the rising market, I got to auctions and there is like 100-200 people in Bergen County just driving prices to crazy levels... if it's not the prices being driven up, the bank wants something totally ridiculous. 

If you are passionate you can make time and there are numerous ways to obtain financing using OPM (other people's money) so that should never discourage you.

Im not a key element in buying properties in my business, or any part of it's day to day operations. 

Also, does any owners of units simply go through and replace the anode, thermostat, and heating elements for less then $100 in materials and find that has proven to be a solution to get the units to last another 7 to 8 years?

You can control and budget your own CAPEX some for interior elements (like your own floor laying and the above schedule, for example) but for the association not so much.Condos are odd ducks, too.

Based on my google maps street view that was updated six months ago, it appears numerous pickets are missing at random intervals.

There are numerous investing opportunities in Scottsdale including single family homes, condos, townhouses, as well as pockets of 2-4 unit multis in prime areas.