The key is making sure you have the right team in place—outside of market research, finding a trustworthy property management company is one of the most important factors in making long-distance investing successful.

The clients we work with who have found success letting us help them find highest and best use of properties, then we manage them for a year, and then pull out 60-70% of their money, and do it again - rather than waiting several years for a home run hit. 

Would love feedback from anyone with personal investing and/or property management experience in these cities.

I own a MTR management company in Los Angeles, currently managing 27 properties.

But yes we do bifurcate our portfolio and manage it to make sure it’s well balanced as well and not teetering too far one way or the other.Chris, I never knew about SEC audit.

When the credit report addresses don't match her application, you deny her and move on.Any landlord running a credit check on her after 05/01/2024 will see her credit report has a $12,000 collection from a property manager, and that should be an automatic denial.

I also recommend you start looking for a professional property manager, at least until you educate yourself enough to run this solo.

My wife and I started managing more properties for others as word of mouth recommendations started and we started to use the management and arbitrage cash flow to acquire our own properties and fund the BRRRs we were working on.  

Then you can self-manage and learn all about tenants, contractors, etc. 

From there, you have to decide whether you want to be a landlord or hire a property manager.