With that, I want to ensure that my approach to real estate is starting with the niche that generates faster returns from the beginning) as a rough example:I can buy Focal Utopia headphones for 8K or I can buy headphones from kmart for $25.

For a long term investor:Would it make sense if you could buy the home at a steep discount and then let the owner stay rent free for a specific period of time?

Quote from @Jerry Huerta: Quote from @Jerell Edmonds: One of my goals for this year is to buy a property OOS and another one in my backyard.

I am also still buying flips/LTR..

Suck it up, buy a property.

If you sold this property would you buy something in Arizona or would you continue to look for properties out of state? 

If you have some capital, income, and decent credit, buy a 4-5 bedroom house and rent bedrooms. 

Quote from @John Friendas: There's a house I'm considering buying with a business partner as an investment rental.

thats basic list one can add.Value add /  New construction / land entitlements/ Timber / Minerals/ Lendingetc etc.. far more ways to actually make money than just buy and wait for rental income to payoff debtl 

Eventually, Class A property values increased to the point that even increasing rents didn't allow them to cashflow upon purchase.So, the flood of new investors switched to buying Class B properties.