Working without a good framework will likely leave you feeling scattered, and lacking direction.

I spoke to a lender yesterday in the area and he said that he came across properties all over that rents dropped 40%(not all but scattered around). 

Like in NJ, there are tons of small cities scattered around NC. 

HOWEVER, telling someone that they can retire next year if they just buy 10 homes scattered across the country (and we've all already addressed the fact that there's no way they actually work in that many markets, they get a referral fee from local providers) is reckless. 

A couple other areas that I would look at are older neighborhoods that have been or are being revitalized as they usually have a couple complexes scattered throughout them as well.

Not practical for a scattered site portfolio of 1,000+ rental units.

Best of all, I no longer feel scattered when communicating with tenants!

I know all this stuff is online and I've been digging in as much as I can but it's so scattered.

They are mostly all in Anderson, but we have a few scattered throughout Townsville, Clemson and Sandy Springs.

He has been incharge of the whole devlopment process from start to finish from everythign from dealing with city agencies, budgeting, finding contractors and overseeing the whole constructions and devlopment process on projects like The NoMad Hotel, Crosby Street Hotel, and multiple luxury apartment buildings scattered across NYC and Downtown Brooklyn.