The physical property has very little to do with the acquisition...this is all about the sellers, meeting individual needs, and creating win-win outcomes.

There is a neighborhood that's in proximity to everything called South East Washington (Anacostia) that seems to be known as a ghetto/very bad area.

You must submit all costs and payments when requesting the final judgment, so the amounts will almost always vary from the initial notice since as so much time will have passed and damages (monetary and physical repairs, etc) will have been assessed.

I have been attending almost every local "meetup, seminar or networking" event that I can physically get myself to. 

Resolve disputes and issues with the physical plant and grounds. 

There are a lot of options for remote management of a facility, but if you can't physically get there every couple weeks at minimum, you may want management and would have obviously have to figure out at what number of units that would work.Any other questions?

Investing in real estate is far from passive, you are not going to escape have to put in many long hours although the work is obviously far less physical than farming it can be high stress.

Close proximity to where I live, so I can keep an eye on it.

., as opposed to a physical notebook that would get messy after awhile.  

As permanent as the apartment building; physically merged into it.