It's important if you're going into a new area that doesn't have a ton of development yet, but you are very confident in, to purchase as much inexpensive land as possible before your plans become known but to also make sure you drive enough volume in that area to make it clear to tenants that they're not in a desert outpost all alone.

There were a few slight distractions like figuring out financing, selling a neighboring lot (that I had also acquired via letter writing) on Craigslist, rent out my RV, rent out my house, make my first ever documentary film (a twenty minute short called Kara, Star Of The World about a woman with a traumatic brain injury from a childhood ski accident), take any photo and video work I could get, start a 360 photography company, create social media channels to hype the build, parent two small kids, do a beautiful and excruciating tandem mountain bike ride across Scotland, drive my family on RV trips to Colorado/Arizona/Utah/Nevada/California/Wisconsin/Minnesota/Michigan/Florida, attempt to write a novel and adopt a puppy.The above may read as humble brag, it is not.

This is causing unnecessary distractions and taking away from your ability to focus on the action items that matter most: building meaningful industry relationships and sourcing investment opportunities.

@Kong Yong Get in your car, drive down every street in your target market, write down the address of the houses that look like they are in bad shape, get on property records and finding the mailing address of the owner, mail them....

If your property is within a short drive from a major hospital, you could have consistent bookings.

Or would the cemetary just detract its value and drive away potential renters/buyers?

I would like rates to be high since that leads to less competition for me to deal with and drives house prices down.....I say lets take them higher.

We had a ton of investors go to Philly because the taxes are low, the prices are good, but you do have to study the blocks and drive them.

Your duty to the seller is what drives this.

While selling in Rochester and investing in states closer to Chicago would still require finding a reliable PM and likely making improvements, the advantage is that these new investments would be in a market that I can occasionally drive to.