There are free apps that help you with managing the entire process (including rent collection, maintenance requests, bookkeeping, ROI overview, and even promoting a new listing whenever you have a vacancy).

So maybe an individual payment is less than eviction, but when taken in total, cash for keys is costing more.I love BiggerPockets, but I think the continuous promotion of the idea that cash for keys is better than eviction is doing the landlord community a disservice.

If you're interested in starting with single-family homes that are not far from the city and near transportation with a healthy market of diverse renters consider looking in Long Island, mainly Hempstead and Uniondale.

Personally, I like Indianapolis and Kansas City not just for the affordability but also for the fact that they both have growing populations, job and diverse modern economies and are landlord friendly which is another big factor.

No personal experience with these folks but got a promotional email from a company advertising a 30 Day Seasoning requirement. 

If you have a big building with large common space maybe you could host and promote training events put on by a local community development corporation.

Well, I’ll fast forward a few years, I’m in surgical sales, took a promotion, and we moved to Wilmington NC (beach town) to take over the territory.  

One of the big keys in retirement planning is diversity of cash flow. 

I'd look for a business/landlord states, rent to income ratio is around 30%, market that has matured later in the cycle, absorption rate, job growth, population growth, job diversity.

I guess the argument by those promoting air and water taxes is that those who pollute it should pay to clean it.