If you choose to live in the Phoenix Metro area, you're an hour outside of Prescott (cooler weather), only 5-6 hours from the beach (Cali), and not to mention all the amazing restaurants there are scattered through out the valley. 

I'm sure like most lower income neighborhoods, there are a scattering of property crimes and such reported over the past 6 months.  

I really wanted an "all in one" type tool so I didn't have things scattered across multiple programs, which is how I ended up with Realeflow.

They are scattered throughout the park and the rangers won't tell your their location...it makes the adventure that much better.  

I've got properties scattered across the country from different PCS's with a mix of PMs and self managing.

@Allen Porter I personally own properties scattered all across the city.  

If you plan is to have 3....or more in the fiture, begin with a company entity, an LLC.

I'm sorry if this is kind of scattered, I guess my real problem is I'm not sure how safe of an investment this could end up being: Downtown LA is expected to rise in value, but will that particularly apply to a condo like this one?

The first page is the menu printed vertically them some graphics, and the actual text of what you bought usually split over two pages, and some more footer stuff scatter further down. 

You can though find 30k homes in little towns scattered throughout the US... challenges there will be minimum wage renters and no hope of type of appreciation.. which even in the major metro areas there is little appreciation to speak of simply because were your going to buy is dominated by rentals and investors only pay by return on investment.. to get appreciation you would need major moves in rent rates and that just has not happened .. rents have stayed pretty stagnate in most of those areas and are not predicted to go up.. you go up above the current rent rates.. and folks are going to buy homes at least your premium tenants.. you will always in those markets have your lifelong tenant