If you think MA is an awful Tenant Leaning state, YOU'RE Right!

I am a virtual broker and we use CRMLS which covers most of the state. 

If you are taking out a conventional mortgage of any kind, you can't buy in the LLC as it does not have two years of tax returns.You are also asking if an entire state is good to buy multifamily, which means you are too soon in the process to even talk about buying.

I considering buying my first rental property there, and am an out of state investor.

After sending millions I can state.  

Even if the rental has a decent cash flow with additional flood insurance, we're still not sure we want to take on that risk as we are out-of-state investors (planning to move back to KY in the future, but not now) and we don't like that it will potentially bring down the perceived value when we try to sell it in the future.The seller has never lived there and has not provided any information on if it has flooded before or not. 

This appears to be another article designed to capture eyeballs by creating controversy. 

To get started, consider focusing on house hacking in California with properties like duplexes or single-family homes with ADUs, or explore out-of-state rentals in landlord-friendly markets like Ohio or Georgia.

But in the South contract for deeds are not liked by the RE attorneies, where up north CFD has state statute validity (which states?). 

As much as we would love to invest in the warmer States it seems as if the MidWest is the place with the best returns.