Regardless, you might find the copy & paste info below helpful:)--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Recommend you first figure out the property Class you want to invest in, THEN figure out the corresponding location to invest in.Property Class will typically dictate the Class of tenant you get, which greatly IMPACTS rental income stability and property maintenance/damage by tenants.If you apply Class A assumptions to a Class B or C purchase, your expectations won’t be met and it may be a financial disaster.If you buy/renovate a property in Class D area to Class A standards, what quality of tenant will you get?

Figure out how you want to handle you investing and what role real estate plays in that. 

To clarify, I want help on figuring out how to pencil a deal that has positive cash flow.

Figure out how to fund the purchase.

I am trying to figure out how many markets I should focus on at once.

If you have the ambition, you can figure out almost anything now a days through some youtube research. 

But since i rarely held more than a year all the others got paid off quickly so I did not have to do all the hidden tricks to try to fool the bank or well not fool the bank or servicer but make it harder for them to figure out I was now the owner. 

If so, it would make sense to figure that out first before deciding on a specific area.

The first thing you’d need to do is figure out who imposed the restriction.

We can't quite figure out how to arrange the Ralph Lauren and Gucci sections of the walkin closets.