Are there any markets you would recommend for long distance investing?

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Bulldozed the house and plan to build a new house on lot in the future Did you work with any real estate professionals (agents, lenders, etc.) that you'd recommend to others?

Any recommendations for property managers in the Sacramento area? 

We don't recommend "newbies" start out with Class D properties.

We have a VA so she does all the tagging and I ask her to export it from Baselane, into excel, then I review it and give comments.Going Digital: Scanning and storing my receipts in real time saves me from searching for that one $17 plumbing supply receipt.

As for buy and hold, getting your foot in the door with a house hack is almost always what I recommend. 

It comes down to supply and demand.

Louisian and I'd definitely recommend attending the next happy hour later this month, which you can find here: https://www.biggerpockets.com/forums/521/topics/1230165-febr....As for trusted people for the maintenance issues, I'd recommend Kyle @ https://hometeamstl.com/.

.--- Another lawsuit resulted from owner's contractor taking down basement handrail to get supplies down the steps, then they didn't put it back and tenant fell down the stairs.- We also negotiate a reasonable completion date, depending on the Scope Of Work (SOW). --- Who gets all the phone calls and wastes time calming a tenant down because the owner's contractor doesn't show up as scheduled after they took time off from work or a 3 day job takes 3 weeks?