This will help identify where there are rentals, asd what their income is.

You don't need credit to become an effective real estate investor: You just need the ability to identify (or structure) great deals!

Learn about metrics such as Cash-on-Cash, ROI, Debt Coverage Ratio to help identify what makes a deal worth while.Have you considered a 30-year mortgage?

The government failure to identify these changes and adjust the SS accordingly is where I have an issueYour suggestion about investing your SS in real estate while interesting is not really practical.  

I've identified ~50 properties in my target geography that I might like to buy - I asked my commercial real estate broker who typically reaches out to owners whose properties are not being actively marketed, and he said the broker does.

After you identify a property, you can pull the file on the 3rd floor of the courthouse and place a bid with a 5% deposit.  

Once you've identified a market, the spend time getting to know the neighborhoods and what areas fit your criteria.

Here's my plan: I worried I don't have the bandwidth to actively own the asset class I'm interested in (10-to-30-unit buildings in emerging markets), so I'm doing some deep market research to identify a handful of really promising markets and connect with locals active in those markets.

In addition (as shown on the chart below) competition levels continued to boost prices, albeit, at a much slower pace than pre-2003.Sale Price vs DOM:Q2 of 2019 continues the pattern we've seen for the past 3 years, which is accelerated growth.

You will pretty quickly identify which plan(s) may be a good fit for your goals.