We are looking to expand in to the Atlanta and surrounding area market.

I'm in Jacksonville and I'm an Airbnb coach/consultant and often work with hosts looking to expand their portfolio.

A local condo that you can easily check on might be a good way to learn the ropes of being a landlord without adding the complexity of long-distance management.Out-of-state investing, especially in areas prone to natural disasters like hurricanes, comes with additional risks.

I believe in learning as you go and not giving up easily.

Thank you Mike - we've certainly been a bit conservative lately on the bridge front, which has served us well as a lot of competitors have stretched and gotten into trouble, planning on cautiously but smartly expanding and improving on the bridge front soon

You can easily create your own calculators with AI tools, so save your money.

If you can't find local deals that make sense, you might want to expand your market area to include nearby secondary or tertiary markets, or even consider bigger properties farther away.

Is college NIL money in athletics a new tenant category that will continue to grow and expand? 

It's a lot of money, years and years worth if not decades worth of income, right, the risks are BIG from screw-up's, one mess-up easily costs thousands and tens of thousands. 

I use Turbotenant as my Property Management Software (PMS) to manage my properties and while I'm setting up my properties on it I can easily market the property with a click of a button and it will push out to all platforms that Zillow does not own: Apartment.com, Redfin, etc.