If you want to find someplace to land pick it based on environment/people. 

The times I know people had problems with tenants are when they made exceptions or weren't thorough enough on their vetting process.2.

One cannot plan for the unknown, but this is why people need to have significant savings or lines of credit to handle the what happens in life.   

The hard part that a lot of people miss is that this is calculated over 30 years (or whatever your term is for your loan). 

As a professional property manager for going on 20 years and a real estate investor, I still encourage people to manage for themselves. 

Real estate is still a people business.

With over $28B under construction or in the late planning stages, jobs and a reasonable cost of living will continue to draw people to Las Vegas, increasing demand (and prices and rents) for the fixed housing inventory.Strong law enforcement is significant to me, having lived in cities like Oakland, NYC, and similar places.Always something to do.

That is because practically all motivated sller leads are people in the process of being forced to sell a home due to legal pressure.

I've been at this since 1988 and have seen them go wonderfully well and horribly wrong.

Having dealt with FEMA in flood situations, they are the LAST people you want to rely on if you need help.