Investment outfits generally only give you one perspective.

I will run counter to all the EXP folks on here and say look into some of the 100% commission outfits.

-egress Windows (5.7 sq ft openable) or the ability to outfit them.

Very few truly reap the benefits of such an outfit as far as the underlying operations go.

I believe it is best and reasonable to  invest in states that encourage collection of security deposit, whose legal system and the alternative dispute resolution outfit work effectively and efficiently and which is clear about the right and obligations of both property owners and tenants and also  whose laws  on issues relating to evictions, contract termination, lease and lease renewal, subletting and assigning of apartment favour you as the property owner. 

Indianapolis broker & buy/hold guy also own one of the top "we buy houses" outfits in town.

They lump small mom and pop landlords with huge national apartment outfits like Greystar.

The $25M settlement years after the 'University' shut its doors also speaks volumes.Indications are that the programs were a sham similar to some currently delivered by some gurus who convince people to go into debt for programs that don't deliver true learning or skills.Hi Karen,You can spin it anyway that makes you comfortable, but the facts (without the media spin) of why it was shut down are clear.As to the guru end of it, there was an in-field adjunct program sold through seminars (I think through an outfit in Utah that does these kind of things), that like any another product, if you have the money you could buy in and participate.

I am the pop of a mom and pop landlording outfit with multiple holdings in single-family-rental properties in this class in a similar city. 

One of the turn key outfits I fund in Indy .. they do something similar .. some sweat equity.. along with start the carpets in a beige color then in every turn over they just progressively die them darker until they change them out.. cheap to die them.. you know some how these tenants just cant cross a room with out spilling their big gulp or their coffee.