Run your numbers, if it works out to what you are looking for, don't let the opportunity slip thru your fingers. 

There's so much knowledge at your finger tips!

I just submitted an offer for a 4-plex in Fresno and hopefully (crossing my fingers) I can close my first rental property. 

Rent in the short term and nice purchase price in a year.I started reaching out to my contacts to find a good mortgage broker, so fingers crossed!  

The property manager didn't lift a finger to help him either.  

Florida another etc.the key is to have your transactional funding set up buy the thing then resell it. and or if its OK to blast out on the internet a house for sale you don't own then try that. with the huge amount of info at one's finger tips and with the guru's pitching this get rich with none of your own money and what certain folks pitch here on BP you now have many more folks out there trying to do the same thing.. many with no experience many with no morals or ethics and consumers are getting hurt.. when that happens they complain and when they complain the states start taking a look..

Then you just build that connection with them, make your expectations known upfront, leave nothing to chance or assumption.... then you just cross your fingers.  

I feel like a good agent in those areas will have their finger much more on the pulse of hot properties.  

Also checked for back taxes owed.Keeping my fingers crossed that the property closes.  

Keep your fingers crossed that everything goes smoothly!