You may trade any 2 unused on-line sessions for a “Live” session on the ground, in your area, scout trip or property viewing once every 60 days or any time I am available for an extra small fee.3.

But, as we know, the best laid plans don't always come to fruition.I've seen here in Seattle that quite a few people are relocating (primarily for tech jobs), and have a decent amount that their companies will pay for their scouting trips to check out the areas, but sometimes it's not enough time before they have to start their job, but they don't want to commit to a particular area and/or buy a house until they arrive and get a lay of the land.

I would like to scout the areas for us, including past history of the apartments.

You could use it as a campground for scouts too and weekend retreats.

You're in it every day, know the neighbors, drive by open house signs and for sale signs all the time, so it makes the job a million times easier vs. starting with some other part of town you've never been in and know nothing about.Start with your neighborhood in Peoria (nice area) and then once you get the hang of it and know more about what kind of deals you're actually looking for, THEN you can start scouting other areas in Phoenix because you'll have the know-how to actually find the deals.Because right now, using a metric like the 1% rule will be useless to you because it's completely useless for higher property value states.

Basically I believed it would be a good investment, but I had no numbers to back up my belief.The biggest difference between our level of ignorance and the bro referenced by the OP was that the bro has much easier access to education material (BP, online census info, Zillow, Neighborhood Scout, Case-Shiller, Rentometer, etc.). 

When I tell them it's called "Red State Relocate" I either get ghosted or cussed at to my face, actually happened scouts honor. 

Pulte & Lennar are here now scouting for land so they can follow.

One source of cities to avoid is Neighborhood Scout's 100 most dangerous cities.

I haven't scouted that cost yet however the ARV if it were a 3 bed room would be about $125-$130k.