We still have a great school here (Mississippi Women's University) and obviously the base provides much of the business for the surrounding area and neither one of those are going anywhere.

I have been dabbling in sectional title property [the equivalent of condos] since 2003 but only became serious as an investor in early 2014 after reading "It's Rising Time", a book on investing for women by Kim Kyosaki.  

Don't want to rent to guys and I don't think its likely that I'll get women renters.

As such, to require one was discriminating against African American workers in the community because there was a higher percentage of this class that did not have HS diplomas as opposed to non-African Americans.A silly, but obvious example of this same idea would be that a company cannot randomly require all employees to be over 6' tall...because this inherently discriminates against women. 

@Karen Margrave  door knocking is the way to go... when I worked the PDX market I had 3 teams one women one man ( women were better at this by far by the way) we knocked every NOD in our 3 county area.When I was in Timber we wrote very specific letters to timberland owners and did quite well with out of state owners.

Go to a few meeting (any FIBI, Club in Action, InvestClub for Women [and the Men Who Love Them], etc) and get a feel for what the locals are doing.

In sales women in general do have an edge.

Any who met a women who has rehabbed a house she is almost done.

There's also a Women in Real Estate group, although guys go too apparently.And LA REIA has free meetups.

Hello BP Community,This question is for investors who have small children, especially women who have a job and invest in real estate while raising a family.