Holla I'm thinking about investing in Toledo also.The one in Spain tho haha

Every property is sold one-on-one, where we provide investors with the information they need to make a good decision. 

Your best bet is to find and contact all of the top local wholesalers and go to work for one of them and see what they do right and wrong and see if it's even a business you like.

It's nice to make one trip to see all.

Am I the only one?  

Asking questions like this makes it seem like you only want one way to invest.

., so do you mean living in one state while a local PM manages a STR for you in the other state?

I fired the PM and hired a much better one, which has been a breath of fresh air.

Then next year buy another one.

As for the areas to target, my goal in getting our feet wet as real estate investors--and since we plan to be living in Sac--is to find a property we can live in while renting out one or more units to help cover our housing expenses, which we can then hold and continue to rent out when we move.