(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.  

Beyond carefully vetting the tenants, how can an investor protect themselves from squatters if we want to sell years down the road?

No one cares about your properties like you do.

I'm wondering if what question you want to be asking is "What lending sources are available to me?

From the start we could tell she hadn't read any of the questions we carefully answered nor reviewed any of the sensitive documents we uploaded during onboarding.

Is this pocket a value oriented area (most sq ft per dollar of rent) or will they care more about proximity to highways, retail, walkability?  

I have loss GOOD TENANTS because they shared a porch with people they did not care for.