Welcome to the site......When im not dealing out of state...im pretty much scattered all over Ca.

This may help you focus on what you need to do and help with the scatter-brain.

Real estate is very broad so unless you narrow it down you can find yourself wasting a lot of time and effort only to find yourself scattered all over.

Thanks - yes earnest money was my understanding - I just couldn't understand the strategy of getting scatter gunning to get so many under contract, even if the earnest is $1500 and you keep 20, still 15k down the drain.

There still are small (< 50 units) '60s vintage properties scattered around that have room with value add but it's a hot market.Portland has higher caps in the suburbs but smaller institutions are there too.

I would just assume have a few larger properties to maintain rather than 70 SF units scattered around multiple cities/states.

Cali has some cheap *** stuff scattered all over.

Then shine a light under the fridge and stove to see if any roaches scatter. 

Currently, the immediate area is very low-income with very few and very scattered middle-income very-early adopters.  

Would you rather have 12 homes scattered throughout a city, or 12 units in one location?