(other issue was a leaky toilet we took care of, at our expense).  

Higher-quality areas attract tenants who are more reliable and tend to take better care of the property.

I started doing some Facebook ads, but I am wondering what metrics I should be looking at/for?

I was wondering if most wholesalers have stopped using direct mail and just moved to google/facebook to find deals?

Without the high leverage you reduce the top source of return in CA RE which is achieve via the appreciation on a high leverage property.  

My experience with S8: There is a reasonably strong correlation between S8 tenants and tenants that do not take care of a rental property. 

(To avoid months of probate and thousands if not $10’s of thousands of dollars in costs.)Hawaii is considered a "TOD deed state," meaning that residents can utilize Transfer on Death (TOD) deeds to designate beneficiaries who will inherit their property upon their death, allowing for a potential bypass of probate court proceedings.If she is already in memory care center.

Hi Fulati-Congratulations on planning to sell one property and having between $200K-250K cash to invest into a rental property and you wondered good areas to invest.I would look at Grand Rapids, Lansing, and Kalamazoo, Michigan.

Friendly reminder to anyone else reading to carefully review your PMA before you sign it and before you decide to change property management companies.  

Quote from @Peter Walther: Quote from @Bob Floss II: I don't know the laws in your area, but tread carefully assuming a judge will award specific performance when money damages are available.