If they are professional, they can explain this quickly and easily.

However, if you are not a savvy real estate investor, it could easily lead to a bad investment decision or leave you vulnerable to fraud.

I'd like to track the properties I've analyzed, and have them all organized on a platform like google maps, where I can easily pin, find and amend custom property descriptions.

Also, if you do need help somewhat infrequently, you can easily hire someone individually for part time which will be cheaper than management and also has no contract.

You have an easily fixable problem, which is your credit management, whereas most people have issues in getting the cash reserves to invest or a stable income.

Easily pass the bill on to tenants. 

In most of Houston, there is no zoning, so if I get a nice land and can easily put two or three offices for half a price of a single structure and rent them at half the cost of a regular small office, or buy a knock down house, level it and put up converted containers on it, possibly even add self storage components. 

If you use the GIS map, type in your address and turn on the "zoning" layer or filter.

You can search by entire state on zillow, start to filter my "least expensive" and you'll be able to compare different states that way.

There are markets where 2% is easily attainable, and 1% is nearly unheard of, but what's important is that you still have a minimum cashflow and ROI that you're willing to accept after completing a full analysis.