I'll admit right up front that I haven't read all three of these books, however I did just finish Long Distance Real Estate Investing and it was excellent.

These are probably the three most active cash flow real estate states that have no state tax. 

Cleveland appraises all properties every three years and resets the assessed value so you have to watch out for this.

You can do two or three "cash flow" with much better results.In investing you should look at "Good", "Better" and "Best" use of you time and resources. 

@Shannon Phillips, A great exercise for you would be to subcategorize "performance" into three categories.1.

What I really wanted to do was get a Quad Plex and house hack three of the units for a year, and then move out and rent all four as I moved on to the next property. 

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

There are three different meeting/locations with the same content each month.  

Owner's redemption time is cut by three years and there is no more physical notice requirement.

I am in a similar situation where for estate planning purposes I have ownership interest in three properties, but do not derive rental income from them or pay for the taxes or HOA myself, but every mortgage I've applied for used the taxes and HOA fees in my DTI calculation.