Focus on areas with good schools and infrastructure for reliable tenants.

My Class A (Indy suburb, great schools) has appreciated and rarely any problems.

Yes of course there are people who think tokenization is cool and you can get some $ from it, but to grow it at scale - real estate is old school and most who invest six figures in real estate are not 25 years old and are not keen on tokenization.

Also illegal for the entire school year, if the tenant has kids in school. 

I’m back now and looking for some guidance on an idea that caught my attention.An old high school friend of mine has been buying older houses, either renovating or tearing them down and rebuilding, depending on their condition.

We currently have 10 single family properties in the best school districts and we self manage.

Highlight the area shopping, business etc, distance to schools .

Good luck, you are a busy man with school, family and baseball.Likely your best bet is house hacking (if your partner and child are willing to share housing). 

These I have found are real, striving parents, working their butts off to provide the best housing and school system for their children.My ethos in this approach is exactly why we at LaPlante refer to them as Residents, as we consider "Tenant and Landlord" to be dated terms and rife with negative emotion.

After high school, I pursued a career in the military, where I proudly served for seven years.