Lastly, for this post, I am keenly interested in creating my web presence quickly with an eye on SEO and content as a main lead generator as we are driving for dollars and scraping data from tax delinquency and probate lists.

I'd be keen to hear your views especially if you started investing in 06 or 07, i.e. right at the end of the last cycle and before the crash.

While I got my teeth kicked in a few times in the early going, that decision forced me to be very keen on how to accurately screen for good and bad tenants. 

I considered house hacking at one time but my wife wasn't keen on it and, in retrospect, I'm happy we didn't do it.Aside from personal preferences, it then becomes a math problem.

sure thing Man, I personally don't syndicate at this stage.But would consider some type partnerships maybe later on.Would be an interesting processes as some of my NZ friends already keen to partner, but im not ready to accept yet....

We have some big college towns like Keene, Dartmouth and Plymouth etc.

Some don't have kick-out clauses but its rare, and I'm not too keen on the liability insurance.

Be keen to enforce the terms of the rental agreement.

What I do like those is the Carolinas specifically Charleston  I found that city about 5 years ago and it was coming out of the 08 melt down.. but I was keen on Boeing and being around aviation all my life I thought the Dreamliner was going to be a huge hit and when they moved it all to Charleston.. and Boeing bought 1000 acres around the airport..

Minimal outlay would be to develop the lots one at a time, but that may be very inefficient in terms of overall return, you could also put the lots into an LLC and operate out of that, but the HMLs might not be too keen on that and would likely lend you the money for one at a time because their only collateral would be the lots.