People should optimize the site itself before investing a nickel in tech. 

A good Property Manager will have the resources you'll need (contractors, leasing agents, maintenance techs and book keeping) to get you by while you focus on more important things. 

For you to gain enough experience and talent to be able to rival a real GC would take you a decade.This is like when people want to get a RE license to save money doing flips....ain't gonna happenLike @Joel Forsythe said, this is a myth that perpetuates the industry.

So I get one the phone and the tech starts telling me the unit is old, and to fix it will require several parts and even then they can’t warranty the work because of the age of the unit etc… I ask him how much and he says, more than $1500 for a new main circuit board and several other parts he needs to price out.

So tech people is replacing older homeowner that want to cash out and they move to sacramento/denver  for example ; and trigger the same migration loop.

Over the past couple of years I've been thinking a lot about how much of my tech salary has disappeared into the ether and decided I need to make my money work for me. 

The SF IRR can only be beaten by Venture Capitalist private investment in some tech sector (prior 2021).

I work in tech so I'm naturally gravitating towards areas that have a lot of tech workers (lots of foreign workers renting).Any ideas? 

Columbus has become a major tech hub in the midwest with large companies like Intel investing $20 billion, Amazon investing $3.5 billion, Google building 2 new data centers: one in downtown Columbus and the other in right outside of U.S. 33 in Lancaster.

BRRRR didn't work for me in Indiana - ARV not high enough, renovation costs over budget and I'm at a huge disadvantage being 2000 miles away.The people I've seen do this in recent years are high earning tech workers in CA making $200,000+ for a single person or $400,000+ married couple and they were able to scale pretty quickly from 2015 to the present and leave their W2 jobs.