Everything invested in high growth markets, regardless of the vehicle, will dramatically outperform and have much lower downside risk than anything invested in Michigan. 

You might not pay those tax rates in year one or two but there is a good chance the values will be raised to the purchase price or the school district can directly so they boost their income. 

Two of you should easily be able to handle 80 units, even if it's on spreadsheets, but software reduces the workload dramatically.

These creative strategies are gaining popularity as they allow what would have been a bad deal to become a very good deal with a 2-4x gross rental boost.

Within 30 days, this gives you a real boost on your score.

And watch for nickel and diming on fees to boost those skinny margins.

Handling out of state investors is dramatically different than working with local home owners.

When you have an accurate detailed job scope you can draw out a gantt chart, and any adjustment to any 1 techs work, you can easily adjust everyone else's schedule, or just the fact of having a schedule for everyone which hugely boosts efficiency.

Washington to find comps then you could get a boost in value.

Say someone works in a field where incomes are subject to change dramatically such as oil and gas, certain types of construction like road building etc, these people may work large numbers of hours and make good money but there is usually some level of base pay and should conditions change such as oil prices dropping or say having a wet summer where construction might be delayed for extended periods etc, you will want to evaluate a prospective tenant on a base pay as well as the highest gross income possible.In an oil and gas situation it would be totally possible for a person/family to make $4000 a month right and your rent lets say is $1500/mo, well what happens when the price of oil drops and there is no overtime pay coming in and that monthly income drops to $2000/mo????