Figure that piece out before you put your money on the table.

Last piece of advice is to avoid shortcuts on the development phase in an effort to make up for the added carrying costs.  

Yeah, that libra thing is kind of the missing piece.

There are a lot of moving pieces with that strategy, so having someone who understands how to properly track expenses, capital improvements, and refinances is key.

This gets your yellow letters down to .309 per piece, standard mail.

For example I have some units in VT that are a 1.5% rule and am looking to move but have not had a  lot of bites and units sell for around $75k a piece 

Once you're able to analyze the existing condition of these 6 systems, you can then source piece rate pricing from sub contractors or a GC -- this may be done by quantity, day rate, etc.

If, however, you look at real estate as fixed income, that's okay.If I could only give you one piece of advice, it would be to buy the property you want to own the most 10 years from now.

IMO investing out of state requires a fantastic team before you buy a single piece of real estate. 

Personally, I think most newer investors WAY overthink this piece.