if you buy a random property 3000 miles away and have to hire out everything and overpay for everything you won't.

But if you are doing AirBNB just make sure its in a seasoned market that wont have some random policy change that makes it to where you can not use the unit as a short term rental anymore.

Tel them you sold it and then start asking them random questions that make me seem like I am totally insane

But these guys were not any random guys, they were my crew.

i just don't see how buying a few on-market properties in a random market gets you very far. 

I would be able to manage the finances, marketing and showings even while working but maybe not attend to the small stuff such as getting a random call to fix something stupid at 3pm when I'm 6 hours out of town or on my 30th day of night shift 12s. 

It amazes me how much random transient travel it gets(bowling tournaments, pawn shop remodels, manufacturing employees, traveling photographers, etc). 

Thanks for the vote morgan, unfortunately this was just a result of random research ive had

I used to live there so I didn't just pick a random market.

If you pick a random OOS city to buy in, based on numbers an agent or wholesaler is telling you or "it's a great market to invest in" and don't know the area, prepare to have lots of cash reserves and to lose money especially Class C. - what's a great market to invest in for one person isn't for another investor.