What I did was take a map of the railway/bus lines and did my research from there. 5 of those areas you listed were on my list, however, when I began bidding on homes I soon found out how much money people are willing to buy small multi-families way above asking price.  

You'll stand out with brokers if you make regular trips to the market and get face time with them.

It is definitely horror stories like this that gets me stalled on starting my real estate venture.I will most likely use a local agent to help me on this first purchase, so I don't trip on the more obvious stuff like location, but hopefully I can still find deals that are in my price range that won't be in terrible neighborhoods. 

This saved numerous often stressful trips to code enforcement, saved time and money in the process.

Haverstraw, peekskill, Beacon, Newburgh, Poughkeepsie, Kingston, even Albany.I personally chose to move to Fishkill and I am an investor in Newburgh. 60 miles to NYC on i87 with two bus terminal an airport and access to metro North.

The trip-plex or quad would be in that gray area, but traditionally that is how a lender would look at it. 

Hi Mitch,we will be visiting Los Angeles, Las Vegas and San Francisco.I know that this trip will be more for vacation and so on but over all I´m planing to get in touch with locals and share some information.To be fair I have not a specific state or city where I´m looking to invest so far.

I own a 3 unit and it's about a 15 minute (20 minutes in bad weather) drive which isn't too bad but I am wondering on the timing of when I should go to shovel and salt.I don't mind going once in the morning and once in the evening, but I'm trying to avoid going more than I have to.Should I keep an eye on the forecast for that location and try and go when the snow lets up to make the most of my trip?

One of the tenant’s guests trips and falls, they can sue the renter’s insurance company instead of yours, the owner.

Someone could have easily been hiding in the stairwell or could trip and fall and hurt them selves navigating the antiquated stairwell in the pitch black.When returning from the grocery store in the pitch black, i tripped on the stairs and broke about $20 worth of glass bottles and was lucky to not hurt myself.