It is basically everything I do in my local market....I'd love to go with a local property manager but they hide behind fair housing laws and say the property owner cannot refuse whatever tenant they pick.

In my potential tenants case, the shelter they picked the dogs up from only listed them as "mixed".

I just picked up the book on investing in real estate with no (and low) money down.

She Visits every summer and I go pick her up.

Wait. let me try to paint a picture for you.If you were blindfolded in the middle of a city and randomly picked people BLINDLY, you would have FAR MORE chance of getting a motivated seller compared to targeted lists.WHY?!

He prefers to walk over dollars to pick up pennies?

Stay away from HOA'S and condos(my personal rule)Pick tourist destinations.

We are seeing co-living investors be able to obtain strong cashflow vs. the traditional long term rental where price points are below $320k or so.I'd pick a sub-market that you have confidence in holding over the next 5 - 10 years.Personally, I like the northern parts of the metro (Kennesaw, Acworth, Cartersville) for LTR and Dekalb, Clayton, Fulton) for Co-living.Feel free to ping me if you'd like to chat - happy to help!

If you have someone you look up to in your local market that's successful do everything you can to sit down with them and pick their brain on creative action steps to take.Best of luck on this journey!

Always a bunch available at any given time to pick from, along with some unlevearged offerings, but, Just can't bring myself to have zero control of exit.