If you pick a random OOS city to buy in, based on numbers an agent or wholesaler is telling you or "it's a great market to invest in" and don't know the area, prepare to have lots of cash reserves and to lose money especially Class C. - what's a great market to invest in for one person isn't for another investor.

Yeah, most cities/areas have a dedicated FB group like "XXX area real estate investors group" or whatever.

We help our clients:1) Find a fixer-upper to buy2) We get bids3) Negotiate a Scope Of Work with the owner using "Maintain to the Neighborhood" to avoid over-improving, but understanding we will have to pass city Rental Inspection to avoid being a slumlord.4) Provide multiple jobsite videos to show progress and document WHAT was done and the QUALITY.5) Handle passing city Rental Inspection6) Find a tenant with a Replacement Guarantee per Class7) Assist with refinance, so client can repeatSo, why you looking OOS again?

Quote from @Daljit Singh: Hi BP, I am currently house hacking a duplex in Union City, NJ, and unfortunately, the tenant stopped paying rent a few months ago. 

According to the City of Chicago tax code, it costs $5.25 per $500 of the transfer price.

@Caleb Johnson one of the reasons the City of Detroit is like the "wild west"!"

Certain areas of the city have outlawed airbnb but others allow it.

Conversely, the number of small-multi family properties being built is a tiny tiny fraction of the number built from the 1950s-1980s in cities like Phoenix and Mesa.

Call the town/city hall.

I also talked to the city.