Jay, I am not sure what the market really looks like for builders in Midland-Odessa but it is crazy that there is not more activity in multi-family in that area. 

Instead of trying to actively manage investments in singles and doubles have you considered investing passively in syndications?

Not sure about maple heights/cleveland, but just down the road here in Akron, the Akron housing authority maintains a list of properties and landlords who are actively interested in providing section 8 housing.

For Livermore, the activity is slower compared to the general Bay Area so you would need to be more cautious on picking the right property to flip, and the margin has to be large enough for it to make sense.

There are a lot of active agents in Columbus on here.

So, if you have 10 units and you are going to pay $1,500 a month and you are working on an active income job, too, this is an easy switch due to the labor mentally and physically (even if it is just phone calls) to get these rentals running as a well-oiled machine.  

I am actively looking for another W2 that will pay me substantially higher.

While the power can't be selectively turned off, it’s really about active management and oversight once the utilities are in the PM's name.

Gita,At least the way I prefer to do things is to only run accrual based accounting activity on my day to day operations.

In the meantime though, I'd try to just actively build your platform here on Bigger Pockets and just casually connect with people.