You build a Buyer pool relatively quickly, and the cool thing is that you aren't begging them for business, but rather THEY are coming to YOU to help them.Keller WIlliams has a great training program called IGNITE, that helps you focus on hitting the ground running (thus the obvious title). 

Outside of meeting with an "investor friendly" agent while in each city, what other in-person tasks should I try to accomplish to gain a better understanding of the potential upside to the rental markets.I have renovated and rented a multifamily property before so I'm not completely new to the game, but analyzing out of state farm areas is a relatively new path that I have yet to explore. 

- central location - Sunny days- No natural disasters or man-made for that matter- great public transportation - revitalization of Downtown and a burgeoning Arts District- terrific Airport- excellent health care options- moreIts a sellers market everywhere.

You may want to think about that in relation to formulating a down payment if you were to go that route.Your strike price is $10,000 less than what the seller paid.

You can buy mitered pieces at home depot or lowes relatively cheaply.

There is also the underlying issue of cost of time related to resolving this issue.

.* 3rd BS - Income limitation - This is related to BS #2 :-).

I could not find one for construction related comments.

Definitely start jumping into the community here and feel free to ask any questions related to Real Estate investing!

In the meantime of you looking for deals, you need to be stacking money as quickly as possible and another good thing you do with the FHA is utilize a 203k loan in which the rehab related expenses would be funded and this would be wrapped into your mortgage.