@Jessica Maalouf-Hi Jessica, Toledo has a population of over a quarter million people making us the 71st largest city in the US...this means we have some wide variety in neighborhoods, suburbs, and thus investment areas. 

@Gary Michalske Thanks for the book recommendations.You hit the nail on the head, to maximize CoCR you want the largest LTV over the longest term. 

In addition, it will plan for commercial and retail uses along FM 1462, with recreation and open space for the master-planned community.

Other analysts weighing in the day after the Federal Reserve on June 15 raised interest rates 0.75% and MarketWatch.com said even before that hike, Freddie Mac reported mortgage rates had surged 55 basis points for the largest one-week increase since 1987."

Creative - you don't have to (& shouldn't) recreate the wheel starting out but be capable of taking the lessons and experiences of others and applying them to your market and your situation (this is very important now with how hot most markets are). 

Will be one of the largest shipping hubs in the country. 

By leveraging a low down-payment loan on a primary, and offsetting your living expenses, you'll be able to accelerate your savings rate by eliminating one of your largest expenses, your housing expense.

I've been doing a research and trying to pick a market to focus on, but Texas is such a large state that I'm having a hard time doing so.

A class-action lawsuit filed last week in a Texarkana federal court alleges one of the country's largest manufacturers of heating, ventilation and air conditioning products is selling equipment it knows to be defective.""

I assume you've never worked with a property management company before, I run one with a $75 million dollar portfolio in Cleveland, not the one the OP is working with, but as the owner of one of the largest management companies in Cleveland, I have the ability to break this down from a real world perspective.In regards to "firing the PM" it's not that simple.