If these nominal metrics are attractive, usually the financials are positive. 

Check the tourism statistics: number of tourists, length of the season if seasonal, competition from hotels, hotel occupancy rate, is the place gaining or losing in popularity;2.

Super attractive when you look at it online b/c of the price point and location but if a deal is ever 'too good' to be true, theres a reason!

Also, find out more about the area and what type of clientele it attracts.

It's like a sleepy little beach town without a lot of tourists or hotels. 

NNN are looking attractive as you can still get some good ones with CAPS above 7%.

I’ve noticed that some of the shopping centers have been improved and some slight development starting to take place.My question is, do you all think Oxon Hill will provide the appreciation over time in addition to attracting a quality tenant?

Rising median income, job creation and population growth are metrics I didn't even considered when thinking about this, but they make a lot of sense.Thank you also for sharing the agent's name, I'll take a look at Columbus, seems to be an attractive and popular location for real state investing.Thanks again for sharing this! 

The quality of them PM is one thing, but it only gets amplified by the quality (or lack thereof) of the properties and the resulting quality of the tenants.If you were to illustrate this with math it would look like this:  0.1 x 0.1 x 0.1 = your result.The answer to your question is obvious, but frankly easier said than done: buy quality properties with few repairs, they will attract great tenants with few issues and even a mediocre PM will do just fine.The allure of cheap cash flowing properties is real: After I had invested all my original capital I bough a few cheaper properties in Milwaukee (this was around 2010, so they were really cheap) and fortunately traded out of them within a couple years - it taught me a lot!

Would be nice to retire someday haha.So, I guess I'm just wondering how to get started since we don't have a ton for a down payment (could probably come up with $25k in cash without touching a current 401k that's not all that large).Also, the Orlando area (and outlying area) looks to be pretty saturated, but there is also a TON of tourist's that visit here too so I'm not sure if one cancels out the other in this type of business.