Market OverviewThe Los Angeles office market is comprised of 210.4 million square feet in twenty-one geographic concentrations ranging in size from the 38.9 million square foot Downtown submarket to the Mid-Cities submarket, which accounts for 1.8 million square feet.

Buy where taxes are low on rental properties, populations are growing, economies are growing, and there are at least two of the following: Gov spend, Major healthcare, transportation hubs, universities, sports teams, industry concentration, tourism, manufacturing.

And concentrate the cash into one of them leaving it available for you to do an eash cash out refi.If you can't or don't want to do a 1031 then make a priority list of your properties and sell the one that - brings in the least cash, you've owned the shortest amount of time (so least depreciation) and has the greatest equity. 

I’m concentrating on paying off student loans so I will have more income to play with later and that doesn’t leave a lot for investing.

Hello Mark, I'm a real estate agent in Pennsylvania, specifically concentrating on the Western Pennslyvania market.

This means you can diversify your investments rather than concentrating all your resources in one project.

New to DFW and I would love to hear your advice.We concentrate on buy & hold, typically 150K - 200K PP, at least 1,000 sqft.In which areas do you think we can enter the market?

I've been concentrated in Pinellas County, but open to areas of Tampa if wise.  

There are small pockets in which they mostly concentrate.

It was similar during COVID and the eviction moratorium.The process I followed is simple and virtually eliminates guessing and luck and has three steps:Identify a tenant segment with a high concentration of reliable people.