However, when picking a market it is important to choose one that isn't totally dead in the slow months.

As the saying goes, "in a gold rush, be the guy selling picks and shovels".

Your best bet is to find someone doing the work in your area and picking his/her brain. 

First of all, you picked a great PM with WHM - Ed has been running a very good business for a long time! 

Pick one forum where your question makes the most sense.

I live in MN and fully trusted my original realtor when he said it was a great area and I bought right after the hurricane so every corner had garbage and debris waiting for city pick up, now a year removed, it's much clearer that my neighbors are not interested in cleaning up their properties as other areas are now. 

I've heard of mentees who started cleaning up construction areas on a flip at the end of each work day or picking up supplies at Home Depot and delivering them to the job site.

That leaves a grey area in between, what if you are not swinging a hammer, but just picking up trash in the yard as you walk by?

I picked up another duplex for my personal portfolio that will bring me to 14 doors.

Last time I was there, the indigineous people would pick the beans. $5 for a 5 gallon bucket full.