A good property manager can guide you in selecting properties that will attract a tenant segment with a high concentration of reliable people.Access to cost-effective resources for renovation and repairs.Lease terms enforcement.

I'm looking to lessen the load of work and concentrate on my exit strategy sometime within the next 10 years if not sooner.

I'd be interested in owning a single family home in the area I am concentrated in just to see how that plays out one day.  

But I don't find that the ones that do exist are more concentrated in the mountains or the cities.  

I did my online MBA with a concentration in Finance at Suffolk University in Boston.  

I did not start buying investments for another few years as I concentrated on building my sales funnel and getting those two years of tax returns done. 

That's mostly because I don't want to be too heavily concentrated in one area, but partially because it's been rough.

In fact, it spreads out their risk to have more renters spread between multiple houses than concentrated in less houses. 

Rather than concentrate on the initial cash flow, concentrate your effort on markets that have indicators of strong rent growth.  

Back then I was much more inclined to take a more concentrated risk with the somewhat limited capital we had.