Any suggestions on where to hang my license in Maryland if my primary goal is for handling my own deals?

If the schools, streets, shopping and entertainment areas look like a C, attracting residents to pay the higher rates by upgrading the property to a A/B as you suggest (higher than the surrounding area) is typically not going to work out so well.  

I am open to all and any suggestions regarding my question.

There isn't any scientific study or stats that I know of.Merely pointing out the observation of my wife and I as we have been looking at properties over the last 4-5 years. 

What does the community suggest?

I was considering trout river location to buy single family homes. murray hills homes are on the rise and cost over 90k for a descent single family residents. since you in the area what do you suggest I invest my money to build a nice portfolio of rental properties.

I am asking this because a Bank I contacted told me that they won't typically work with someone who does not have any prior experience building  multifamily and suggested that I consider purchasing an existing property instead.How else would you gain experience?

Cost segregation studies are often performed to isolate and value the individual components so these items can then be depreciated separately over shorter lives.Whether it is worth it from a cost benefit standpoint for SFR's in my opinion is debatable. 

Thoughts, comments, and suggestions are welcome. 

When I was studying the space I saw that prices of net lease product was often 3-4X the value of the mom and pop retail located right nearby.