However, since the prices of real estate are extremely high, I would try to look just outside the city. 

I really see Columbus Ohio as an extremely safe bet for the next 10-20 years.

Go to Etsy and search for "rental property tracker," and you will find hundreds of nice spreadsheets to track 10-20 rentals, usually for under $10.Software has extremely helpful features like online payments, marketing syndication (click a button, and your property is advertised on multiple sites), electronic document review/signing, maintenance tracking, and owner reports.

As long as you make your payments this sounds extremely unlikely from what people have said.

Now granted this is rare to the extreme but if your the one losing out its painful.

She's one of my extreme examples, but this is a common story.

So everything has to be as extreme as possible.

Car washes are extremely profitable, too. 

Extremely difficult to pass and I bet you didn't know that you had to get it reinspected again in three years.

After literally years of looking (since 2022) I bought my first property a few months ago, so I feel extremely qualified to give advice (many people earned lots of equity during the pandemic appreciation-boom if they bought before 2022, but out-of-state investors getting started AFTER the 2022 interest rate hikes are few and far between).