If I'm a police chief dude, I'll trust any old beat cop to take care of the drunk drivers, but my precious expensive K9s are going to my top 10% cops.I'm not a cop or anything, just my $0.02!

He would pick up about 6 of them in our van.. then drive them many times to SF or Oakland and they would get about 3k pieces out a day... this turned into hiring a foreman for lack of better words who was the boss and driver.. this lead to 3 of those guys and 3 vans out .. this lead to more leads than he could handle and the number one salesmen in the orginizatin within 2 years and his own company in 3...

We handled just about all of our maintenance issues by ourselves, giving us good look at inside apartments on each call.We only used MTM leases and this kept tenants on their toes, and us in the drivers seat.

Check their drivers license and make sure the address matches the "previous or current" address on the application.

Perhaps the property could achieve a 1.2% rent-to-value, but the turnkey company sells it for another $3,000 more because it hits the 1% rule exactly and that is the demand driver?   

If that isn’t a cab driver giving stock advice moment, I don’t know what is. - Also the $6T in the economy won’t have as much as an impact as one would think since a lot of it is meant to provide liquidity to keep the gears turning in this beast we call an economy.

I think you can have both scale and diversity in portions which achieve your overall goals.If you are a remote investor, and using property management, there will be a threshold of scale - number of units you hold in a single market - which will garner you a better rate/unit for property management costs.On the macro-economic level, distribution of holdings in different regions (states/provinces, countries) with diverse economic drivers and a low-level of coupling will help smooth the bumps of fluctuation in local economies.So perhaps it is not a question of Dallas or Indianapolis, but one of how much Dallas and Indianapolis and do your acquire them in parallel or sequentially.

The NFIP’s definition of a  primary residence:Definition–Previously identified when a customer occupied residence  at least 80% of the prior year–As of April 2015, a primary residence is now considered  when a customer will occupy their residence more than 50% of the policy  termTo verify residence status, FEMA requires one of the  following:  –Current driver’s license –Automobile registration –Proof of automobile insurance –Voter’s registration –Documentation of children’s school attendance–Homestead tax credit form for primary  residenceThe NFIP will be sending a form  to clients for completion.   

Your sounding unsure and reluctant to buy will make them feel more like their in the driver's seat.

You won't be a good race car driver if you don't understand all the parts of your car and all the rules that apply, if you don't know the rules you may win the race but if you cheated you don't win.