Regardless of how you find them, try to interview at least three managers.1.

If you can trade up (move) three times or more it can be a life changing strategy.  

1) you will be able to use 75 percent of rent for three units, and underwriting will assume you live in the best / most expensive unit usually.

I had three years interning in the field and I was getting BLOWN up by offers from various Mortgage companies, so I finally decided to cut my losses at $40k of debt, enter the work force and stop racking up debt that I'm really not deriving direct, tangible value from. 

A small drip in the kitchen sink is an easy fix but you don't want to wait three years and have a dripping sink, a cracked window, a broken gutter, and ten other little things that add up to big expenses and force a vacancy while repairs take place.

@Juan Avalos I have three Section 8 properties that I purchased with tenants already in place in Macon, Georgia.

RALAcademy taught me how to do it and now I own three!

I'm originally from Wisconsin, but I've been living in the DMV area for the past three years.

We have three kids and we won't move out of the school district until they are done with school.

Which meant if I had four roommates and one decided not to pay, the other three were responsible for the rent.