Smaller industrial properties have maintainedimpressive occupancy rates and rising rents for several years, and in recentmonths they have increasingly stood out as one of the best-performingcategories of commercial real estate.To learn which U.S. markets have the most acuteshortages of smaller industrial space, CoStar ranked the 60 largest U.S.markets based on the composite scores of three criteria: current availabilityrates for industrial buildings smaller than 50,000 square feet; the mediannumber of months on the market of 10,000-25,000-square-foot industrial spacesleased in the past 12 months; and the median number of months on the market ofindustrial spaces smaller than 10,000 square feet leased in the past 12 months.

Since I live out of USA now for my job, I feel I am often taken advantages by our property PM companies with bigger maintenance bills, loose communications.

I'm sure they price the product is based on the potential returns if an investor works the program diligently.

Primary areas I am looking at (if that makes a difference) is Glendale, Goodyear, Avondale, Peoria, or Surprise.Any suggestions or recommendations for a real estate attorney that works primarily with residential?  

Quote from @Divya Santhanam: Hi everyone,My husband and I have been exploring the idea of expanding our real estate portfolio, which has primarily been in Southern California.

Zillow gave me a rental estimate which is based on 2-beds and rentometer did not include data for 1-beds since it was searching within 1-mile radius.Is it a good thing or a bad thing if there are no 1-bed 1-bath in the vicinity?

It's great that you found a seller willing to accept seller financing now just cover your bases.

Focusing only on traveling nurses is limiting the client base.

Based on what you have said above, I would recommend the Multifamily Bootcamp. 

But every other month we are at about $2000-3000 surplus.If we stay or buy a second home and rent 1st, the difference is about $1000 in our pockets.I don't want to make an untimely decision on buying home by missing some kind of interest rate change, based on short term financial struggles when 10's of 1000's of $$$'s could be made.