Avoid areas with high vacancy rates or declining property values, often concentrated in certain inner-city neighborhoods.Since you’re out of state, building a local team is crucial.

Wood has a huge variability in strength--between pine varieties, the stress which can cause them to fail varies by more than 2x and you can see 20%+ increase in strength as it ages.Then I have stress concentrations which will yield and then redistribute the load in practice, but not according to the calculations I'm allowed to do. 

While RAD also concentrates on areas of Texas, Idaho, California, and Florida for its growing portfolio of rental properties, according to the January offering circular, Philadelphia has been its primary locus of activity.

An entity that operates hundreds or thousands of apartment units has far less concentration risk than an owner of a few rental homes, whose tenants may all be impacted by COVID-19.Do you think Portland’s ten-year trend of positive economic growth for landlords will continue, or will it flatten out, possibly even declining in the wake of COVID-19?

I’ve been concentrating more on the Indy market and I’m happy to compare notes if you’d like.

Something I've been concentrating on internally very much lately. 

Few people have no clue what is or how it works, I was just reading today that the cannabis growers that will be trading BILLIONS of dollars in CA, cannot deposit those funds in traditional banks, therefore; many will be using Bitcoins and other digital currency. 

To get the biggest bang for the buck , I would go where the highest concentration of illegals live .

Concentrate on finding a Real Estate brokerage that does investing as well.Good Investing...

Once again, the loss of the compounding factor by concentrating on my personal home rather than an investment was significant.