You can head to other neighborhoods as your chosen management company shows competence. 

Hello Bigger Pockets community,First, thank your for giving me the learning opportunity to see my goals thru, Second, I hope to make many new friends and business partners, not for the moment but for a lifetime and I am ready to learn from one or from all anything/ something new, that can help take my business to the up most levels, To start with I started back in 1987 investing in condemned dwelling, empty lot for new construction/owner-builder, I have learnt a lot, lots of hard knocks, many lessens and still going forward to my pursuit of succeeding in my chosen field, Hope that I can meet each of you in person one day but for now, Thank you  P.S.

It also allows you to put tenants in the property that you have chosen rather than relying on someone else's choice of tenants that you may be stuck with for the duration of the lease.

The buyer has just chosen not to do any work to the property and it has sat in a very hot market.

My partner and I both work in a real estate company, and have experience on the management side, but not on the acquisition side.I have run through the calculations and I have chosen very conservative numbers for my expenses, but I want to know if I have made them too conservative.

Not sure how often you come back to the US, but you could combo a trip out to your chosen market to start building relationships with agents, contractors, project / property managers etc.

Vet turnkey vendors in your chosen market (maybe top two markets).3.)

Opportunities pop up from time to time on my FB feed, in my chosen markets.

After all, it is technically educating myself on my chosen field, right?  

With my move to Gresham, Oregon to escape the ravages of rampant growth and skyrocketing housing prices in the Bay Area, I have chosen to transfer my production skills into a new adventure in real estate investing.I plan to learn the ropes by starting with a number of flips then building up to buying income properties.