Although we are native Texans, we currently live in the Salt Lake City area and love it. 

My name is Scott, I'm a San Francisco Bay Area native (born in San Jose, and now live in San Francisco) who recently discovered BP podcasts through a friend and have been addicted ever since.  

How hard is it to deal with owners overseas?

For example:  We put Hardie Board siding on one of our duplex properties. 

Second question:I'm trying to calculate cash flow from rent, and I'm wondering how hard is it to manage properties to start.

I am a Kansas City (Missouri) native looking to build relationships with investor friendly agents for comps.  

If you're a native there and you have a good idea of the rents, stability of local jobs and you can manage your portfolio, it could be something worth looking into.

There's also doing REST calls with Powershell and storing all of that data in object and then scripting out what you want to do.The third option which a colleague brought to my attention was that this actually may be a job best suited for nodeJS since you can interact with all of that data natively since it is Javascript.

Luckily there are quite a few colleges in my area so finding responsible girl tenants is not hard. I

We knew we would make a good chunk of money off selling our first home, therefore we wanted to put that profit towards upgrading some things on our new house (metal roof, hardy siding, etc.)