The last 5 deals I bought were all basically move in ready, bought only at a slight discount after deals fell through. 

interest rates and prices are high and people are contorting themselves into pretzels to try to buy. 

I am interested in meeting people from whom I can learn more about real estate investing. 

Let your criteria do the filtering for you.Regarding retention and renewals, the only time I have asked people to leave is when they have had rent payment issues and/or damaged the property. 

Personally, I would never live in PHX, but that is all personal biases (I prefer seasons and greenery), and clearly lots of people choose to live in PHX.At the end of the day, I would argue market selection almost only comes into play when you are talking assets that cater to institutional buyers that have to get investment committee sign off. 

One thing to note when getting conventional mortgages and spouses.There is a 10 limit per person for conventional financing.You can either do 10 conventional in each person's name which would be 20 mortgages for 2 people or if you do the mortgages jointly, will only allow 10 in total.My thoughts are not to own joint assets until you are both married. 

Check out howmoneywalks.com and see where people are moving to. 5.

I’ve been coaching new investors for a while, and I always enjoy hearing about what brings people to real estate.

You'll want to put together a personal financial statement (basically lists of all your assets and liabilities) and have your tax returns ready.

I do not know how they are handling new customers verse the Midland existing customers.Regarding the customer service it seems the people I dealt with are still employed and only my "personal rep" as it were, was promoted and another took her place.