You can find deals on MLS occasionally but generally the sellers there want retail and as an investor you don't buy retail.

It does result in occasional short periods (typically 1 night but occasionally 2 nights) that a unit goes unrented because with the fixed fee our single night charge is not cheap.  

If you want the condo as a place to visit occasionally, then that's very different than looking at it as a pure investment. 

Occasionally we revisit to negotiate. 

We get an occasional one, haven't found any big discounts but they seem to keep dropping the price about every thirty days in our area.Picked one up recently, was on the market for 90 days price drop of 10k about every 30 days.

I am considering having only occasional group showings, perhaps one per week?

I have property management in place so most of my time is spent on paperwork, accounting, admin along with resolving occasional issues with PM.I spend 10-15 hours per week researching new properties and markets.

There are a couple of fellow that work at Camp Zama, they occasionally get together for meetings and touched base with me.

If the state defines whatever you are doing as transacting some form of business that requires you to register the business in the state, then that might determine where you have a legal obligation to incorporate.If whatever you are doing does often or occasionally require having to bring a lawsuit where you are doing business, most states will typically require you have to be registered or authorized in the state to sue.

.- I am interested in investing outside Iowa, because I believe prices are over-bloated here with some properties having insane evaluation because of all the big financial companies here and low cost, people are moving in.