This is great stuff!

That is very difficult to do in the best cases and even harder to do remotely.I'm an advocate a hybrid approach for remote ownership; using a local PM for the on the ground stuff but owning all of the guest interactions via the app.

I do stuff in Decatur, west of Madison, and North HSV.

Buy and hold in one of the A class areas in Baltimore, if you are going to do Baltimore, it’s the only part of the city that has growing population, and rehabs are extremely tough right now especially with no experience, I’m doing one right now on the eastern shore, basically cosmetic, was built in 1994, systems, plumbing etc in good shape, labor is even less than Baltimore, gc-ing myself, still running me 70k, materials are insane right 3bd 1ba, mid tier Lowe’s stuff (I’m even putting in a shower insert, no title) is running over 30k.

Largely to avoid the PM from throwing the first warm body in that fills out an app and you're stuff with a bozo.

Got to find you some stuff out here.

I don't think it's worthed the hassle to do out-of-state rehab-fix-rent outside CA if you live in CA.About the school district just enter niche.com ; find the best 5 school district in your metro and buy-hold there.All this software opens your eyes that the opportunity is actually located in front of your eyes.For cashflow I still invest in midwest primary for the following reasons :  we need those rentals to maximize tax and cash-flow(gross rent is twice mortgage stuff); I prefer just turnkey for midwest.

Your Renter may have not paid for two years and now had to start at the rate from three years ago...insane stuff. 

Negotiating can be a headache without an experienced agent – you might miss stuff or leave money on the table.

I've heard that stuff works pretty well.