Hey Bigger Pockets world,I'm just thinking and planing ahead here. 

It's one market to track, one property manager to manage, one place to look for additional units, one place to look at the "path of progress", one set of plane tickets to buy, etc.  

Your economic numbers will tell you it’s a “B” market, the agent(s) will tell you it’s a “B Area”, and after 15 minutes minutes of driving around the area (after you buy the plane ticket, fly out, rent a car) you’ll quickly come to the conclusion that the deal on a spreadsheet doesn’t match the deal in-person.

Reno might be an easier drive/plane trip from Santa Rosa. 

Abed Asghar Here’s my suggestion: Take a weekend and buy a couple of plane tickets and hopscotch around a few neighborhoods in different cities with $10K homes.

Back then I wouldn't have imagined that real estate would allow me to own my own plane, but I'm going on a decade plus in the Cirrus. 

I don't want to have to rely on a random person to handle my investment and spend "x" amount on labor, plane tickets, etc.

Im trying to pull all parcels that lie within Houston MSA's 500-year flood plane.

The better way to do it in my opinion is to spend a few hundred on a plane ticket and drive around the area yourself and make some offers.

But that's what most "investors" do and it's also why most of them lose money, I suppose :)If you've been looking into Cleveland for a couple months not then it's probably time to buy a plane ticket already!