If you haven't yet, be sure to check out the The Ultimate Beginner's Guide to Real Estate Investing and The BiggerPockets Podcast.

Be sure to check out the Ultimate Beginners Guide as well as my 10 Rules of Successful Real Estate Investing.

Hey @Stephen Weber - show notes are at http://www.biggerpockets.com/show38 but I think you are talking about this article:The Real Estate Agent's Ultimate Guide to Working with InvestorsIs that it?

So ultimately, you need to crunch the numbers.

There are some great emerging markets in your area.Check out the Start Here page http://www.biggerpockets.com/starthereCheck out BiggerPockets Ultimate Beginner's Guide - A fantastic free book that walks through many of the key topics of real estate investing.Check out the free BiggerPockets Podcast - A weekly podcast with interviews and a ton of great advice.

If you haven't yet, be sure to check out The Ultimate Beginner's Guide to Real Estate Investing as well as the BiggerPockets Podcast which has a lot of great info!

By being involved with him on the property management side of things you will no doubt get into conversations about investing and pick up knowledge along the way.Experience in property management is a great asset even if your ultimate goal is to be an investor and hire property managers in the future.

If you haven't yet, be sure to check out the The Ultimate Beginner's Guide to Real Estate Investing and The BiggerPockets Podcast.

I’ve found individual properties which *could* work in each of these cities, but don’t understand how to ultimately pick a market and get going.

Also there was the ultimate real estate guideline to working with real estate investors.