I hear that I should only consider markets I can access physically on a regular basis or can visit many times to "learn inside and out." 

What allowed me succeed was Glenn had an awesome direct mail marketing machine, and even had an appointment setter, so I just needed to get my car and go talk to 3 to 4 sellers everyday.

If you end up moving stations, you can continue to use your network within that base to continue to rent out on a room by room basis.

I'm looking every day but nothing is coming up in my area that meets my criteria.

The outskirts tend to follow Phoenix trends on a much slower and less exaggerated basis. 

Those go into your basis and can be depreciated over time.

Additionally, as agents if you could pick the perfect investor to work with on a continual basis what are the things that would make them appealing to you and make you just want to keep coming back to work with that individual as much as possible?  

That way my basis in the property will technically be higher which should help with capital gains if I ever sell.Good feedback and advice.

I have always been extremely interested in real estate investing and househacking and consume content almost every day, and saving up for my first househack.Now, I work fulll time HVAC and am a part time Realtor, and was thinking about working specifically with first time home buyers ages 23-30 to show them how to househack on their first property.

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