Search for local investors, brokers, insurance agents, attorneys here on BP and start connecting with them and gathering the Intel on the area.

Part of my motivation for jumping out on my own was the ability to partner with a good friend who is a 20+yr GC and in our conversations the past few years he's had a big desire to do flips and move away from client work.

Also, he's a bit of a sociopath and he has managed to gather the sympathy of the neighbors about having to move while his wife is taking care of her mother.Any advice will be greatly appreciated. 

The situation as I see it goes like this: I offer a way for a client to purchase a home and education/information on how that can happen for them (fixing credit, saving money, etc) and they are successful and in the end own their home...... or.... they do not follow the suggested path and they lose yet even more money. 

I would never advise any of my CPA clients to put rental properties inside an IRA. 

I've been listening to podcasts fiendishly and reading articles and forum posts, but have yet to buy an investment property.Just coming out of lurking to introduce myself.I'm leaning towards a BRRRR strategy for apartments, in and around Sacramento or out-of-state (Texas).Gathering up my funds and knowledge for now.Thanks for sharing al the incredible information!

Most people are only looking for city water and sewer from what I gather and would like to know how many POH (park owned homes) there are.

I would recommend gathering the list of options for places, but then not settling on any of them officially until you live out here for a bit.

I have managed 200+ units at once and can tell you that starting out you should focus on setting up your processes contracts and such, then scale to larger properties.For our clients that manage themselves we try to set them up with as much of the infrastructure as possible so that they have a head start and can just worry about the normal tenant issues.

You might gather some insights from that on how you can incorporate it to your standard rental.