Whether that means creating relationships with Realtors who can bring you pocket deals, direct marketing to mom and pop landlords or owners of distressed properties or finding a wholesaler to bird dog off market properties for you.

On the down side, you have tenants who share walls and might get upset with each other due to noise, dog poop in the yard, taking their parking space, etc. 

For example, you list an apartment for rent and 15 people email you asking if you accept dogs, how to apply, or if you'll hold it for three months while they look for a job.

I have a couple terms I want to put in there, such as no smoking near other tenants door, cleaning up of dog waste immediately instead of leaving in yard, etc.

I found a duplex with a shared backyard and a deck directly in the middle of the yard with both backdoors exiting onto the deck.I have a dog, and would like to keep him out of my neighbors yard.

If you don't sell and wait to buy in Ohio, later, then you will most-likely wish you had sold when prices were lower and you will wish you had sold so you could own a property close to vs. 700 miles away as you are trying to figure out why your tenants are running a dog kennel inside your home, they have not paid their rent for several months and your property manager tells you that you need to send a few thousand dollars to cover the attorney fees and other bills that are past-due. 

As per are previous experience with how clean they kept their other pets, we agreed that it would be fine as long has they cleaned up after the dog in the yard.

Those guests caused the second most damage to our unit, behind a couple of traveling nurses and their three huge dogs.

I like boring ones for example a SFH in the suburbs of Nashville or Kansas City, 3/2.5/1750/ 2000 built, good schools rented to a family w/ 2 kids and a dog . . . .truly the American Dream.I'm staying away from older, smaller in sketchy parts of town that on paper are cash cows but in reality . . . not.To me boring real estate means you can live in LA, own one or more in KC, use a good property manager (not all are bad/jerks/crocks) rent out, still experience typical and minimal rental/house issues (yes, you will have them I promise) but at least encounter them less frequent.Couple of things to know about this type of investing:relatively low riskrelatively for real estate a more liquid assetonce you buy and see how it works and build some confidence - easy to duplicatedoesn't require extensive experienceif done correctly can be done in the background of your life, ie you don't need to be actively present on a daily/weekly basis. 

This is a way to leverage my experience.For a non-professional buyer in a place like Queens to do so on a building that costs three-quarters of a million dollars...that's maybe a good fifty feet past the far side of the-dog-is-telling-you-to-kill-people crazy.