Others like the low cost of the mid-west and have the, skills, time and energy to manage a project long distance.What strategy to deploy will depend on your goals and what your skills, lifestyle, and capital allow you to accomplish and the balance of those 3.

Many of them are right next door to eachother so management could be made more efficient.

I dont think i can change the picture location because it is the Property Management website but I will ask. 

However, county loan limits still apply to Veterans who have previously used, and not restored, their VA home loan entitlement to purchase, refinance, or construct a home above $144,000.Your entitlement can only be restored when the property is sold, or the loan is paid-in-full.

BTW, this is where having a real estate agent is useful as they manage these details and explain them to you so you don't have surprises like this. 

Sometimes properties with clouded title are sold using owner finance.5) Talk to a property manager to ensure these are good rental areas and the rental income is not artificially inflated by an unethical seller.6) Do the math on the repairs, monthly income, monthly expenses all make sense.

They also offer potential partnership and more efficient systems than I can offer on Rehabs, management, etc...I love to work with investors, it is the folks that are never going to buy that want hours of advice for free that are the tough ones. 

A lot of expert level investors end up going that way at some point (retirement age, bored of flipping, tired of managing rentals, etc.). 

Do you have a lender/ property manager/ cleaning team that you highly recommend?

Some systems can't keep up with extreme heat, we had complaints about this all the time in the community I managed.