My thought is to start in tax deed states near high growth areas and targeting municipalities or builders in the area since those seem like the largest buyers.

And that is the combination I used over a period of 7 years to take a duplex in Denver into a Long Island Sound Movie set and vacation rentals in FL and slowly turn those into primary residences which were then sold for the sailboat we lived on for a decade. 

I chose GaREIA because its the largest and has the most experienced investors flipping and buy and hold. 

Is land included in your $835k purchase price?

We just put something in contract in Long Island City.

This is Allegheny County, If you know the county court and county property records-keeping systems, you can crawl so far up into people's private business using the online records system that you're ashamed of how much you know about them.Our tenants also typically come from the health-care industry, our area's largest employer.

We've been trying to read up on everything and are hopefully we will have more rentals in the near future but this being our first and largest, the expenses are always going to be more. 

I am an investor from long island.

My largest deal is 8 units.

Boroughs, Long Island, Upstate, Westchester, over the bridge in New Jersey, literally anywhere.I will do whatever it takes to earn the money to buy property to live in.