If you invest in Detroit you must know the neighborhoods or have someone trustworthy on the ground who does.

Find a local Team to have experience and be trustworthy and will help you and return your calls promptly.  

You find a good trustworthy company to park your retirement assets -- this is no different.

I feel like there are some places in Texas such as Killeen where the taxes aren't too high - it is definitely a personal choice of how comfortable you are with investing out of state - I would make sure you have trustworthy people who are local to where you will invest to help you out and check on things! 

Hopefully more investors will be willing to travel and see for themselves or make sure they have trustworthy "boots on the ground" where they plan to invest! 

I don't speak in equations, but I also don't try to claim some academic high ground while I ignore trustworthy online financial tools like Bankrate and Quicken.

Im also looking to get in contact with a local lawyer and contractor that would be fair and trustworthy to a beginner.

They had been trustworthy so far.3.

Michelle, I feel 100% sure you are a wonderful PM and worth more than you get paid.That said, you're in a profession full of shysters, so don't be surprised of the hordes of angry owners badmouthing PMs.  99% of the PMs out there deserve it.It's like being the one, great, trustworthy used car salesman and being angry that used car salesmen have such a bad rap - because you're not that way.You won't be able to change people's opinion of the profession, because you happen to be in a profession that is rife with rip-off artists. 

My priority is getting this repaired for my tenants, and by networking I've found a trustworthy experienced electrician that is able to come out asap to do the work.