Conduct thorough due diligence, including property inspections and financial analysis, to ensure it aligns with your investment goals.Property Management: Since you'll be living in one unit and renting out the other, familiarize yourself with basic property management practices.

This is a practice that has led to amazing results.

From what I gather, the capital appreciation is little to none.At the moment, I am getting a 7% return from dividend-paying US ETFs with practically little time and effort.Would you consider investing in condos in Thailand that don't show more than 10 to 12% ROI and I'm talking about ROI as rental income.

I'm reaching out to see what best practices, behaviors, tools, etc. will help me find the right markets across the country for different investment strategies? 

Hello Mara HayesFor your situation, hiring a fee-only financial planner who charges by the hour would be a practical choice.

Somebody from NJ posted this in a separate thread about 21 days ago and I meant this thread to be a one-stop place to gather information on good wholesaling practices, so I am going to link to the thread I took it from and copy the text below. https://www.biggerpockets.com/forums/93/topics/1194082-5-tips-to-create-a-real-wholesaling-business-and-not-a-chop-shop?

They will move to a different home where the owner keeps up on maintenance, and you'll be stuck trying to rent a non-functional home or paying a lot of money at once to fix everything back up.Best practice is to maintain your property.

Good cash flow on the property and will continue to bring you income and appreciation.I'm not sure of the numbers when you purchased the property, but assuming you followed the customary practice of 3.5%-5% down, you have a property with some very solid appreciation. 

Thank you.Do you know if it's common practice for PM companies to show the property before the tenants move out? 

Is this standard practice?