. $50M in assets is ideal for me.

I don't believe prehab is the ideal method to build your systems around and we think it will only work on some of our investments in this area.

@Jeffrey Long Ideally, I'd like to have this managed by a property manager or the "condotel"

@Anthony VargasFor vacant insuranceI currently use Arcana and if you connect with a REIA group that is a part of National REIA they have some of the best prices ever.I have also used APIA and found them to be the easiest to work with, despite arcana being 100 percent auto,ate and instant access once set up.Also in the game is NREIGAll insure nationally.Your local REIA group might have standard national insurance companies that broker a few other products for your vacant houses.

The houses being vacated in the donating metros will likely be ideal for rentals (or flips) as they're likely smaller older homes in need of some value add. 

That led me to a financing career as an Finance Manager win the auto industry, where i stayed for about 5 years before leaving to have my daughter.

So far from my limited research is easy memphis is ideal and to stay away from the Frayser area.I don't need the property to be in a hip or posh area. 

Three immediate reasons come to mind:  1) by talking about it all the time, you create focus for yourelf (ideally) and hopefully a sense of urgency, 2) you create a sense of accountability, since you keep yakking about it, people hopefully will check in with you to see how it's going, and 3) those friends and family and others may bring you a deal. 

The interim would ideally be related to real estate and help increase our knowledge.

Ideally - skills and benefits / rolls and responsibilities would compliment each other without conflict and a lot of overlap.