If you're going to invest here I'd suggest you concentrate on areas you know particularly areas which are lagging the re recovery.  

Columbus, Ohio as a market is very diverse and not concentrated to one or two economic drivers. 

One word of advice: unlike other investments, it pays to concentrate one's holdings in real estate.

Delving deeper into Harris County, a sizeable share of the homes that were destroyed or incurred major damage is largely concentrated in just a handful of zip codes."

One word of advice, pick a niche and concentrate on it.

For the next properties I purchased, I first identified a tenant segment with a high concentration of reliable tenants.

Also I would suggest that you decide on one aspect of real estate investing and concentrate on it.

I read a book about every two weeks.I think you ought to concentrating first and as begin to be getting more confident you should pick your real estate type that turns you on the most plus learning about Partnerships. 

there are a lot of facets to this, and most people will concentrate on one, but the greatest success will probably lie in a combination. that doesn't mean you won't have a conecentration on a certain technique, but you're ready for other opportunities that present themselves.

In my property analysis tool, we don't really calculate with mortgage insurance and it's also quite impossible to somehow predict the variable interest rate for the future years.I will concentrate mainly on the residential fixed rate mortgage.