I have a property on a lake by hoover dam in MO. 

@David Cate- I understand that King co  can be  a challenge to make the  #s  fly .....assuming you need to  use  financing for the next purchase - make sure you have  your  loan pre approval  in place  for  whatever  hyothetical  scenario you  want to  use 

My family is flying in tonight.

I am fresh into this investing as well and was also looking at Jacksonville, FL. I

I am not sure that I am one to give advice considering my experience or lack thereof, but  I will tell you where and why I am looking in these markets: Pittsburgh Pa and St Petersburg FL. I

We are flying in to check it out in a little over a week but the turn key company is boasting returns of 20ish percent?

I used to listen to the Old Capital Podcast religiously and considered attending their event but I believe it's only a one-day event, which wouldn't make it worth it to fly to TX.

But I may not be able to fly out to tour the places prior to purchase.  

our original lease didn’t require professional cleaning and we did a top notch job cleaning the house, but again during the three weeks of vacancy some flies has died in the window sills and there for they had to hire professional cleaners🙄Then to make it all worse they said the the original managers weren’t professionals and were “Just a bunch of Mexicans who didn’t know what they were doing” I’m not Hispanic but I was really offended with there attitude.We took excellently care of that house and I only wish the tenants in my properties now were half as good as we were.  

A lot of it is really just finding a lot of options out there, comparing them, seeing how they feel, seeing what people are saying about them, and worst case you can always drive or fly out to one you like and check out all of the operations and see how you feel about them in person (that made a big difference for me when I started with turnkeys).Philly is a hot turnkey market right now...that is probably your most driveable.