Find Brandon's videos on YouTube for the "four square" method of analyzing homes and practice.

If you buy a random property in an unfamiliar neighborhood you will get crushed by deferred maintenance, or your tenants, or both.like this guy.https://www.biggerpockets.com/forums/48/topics/1160450-run-i...or, for a super thoughtful thread on someone investing in the midwest from California with lots of good responses:https://www.biggerpockets.com/forums/48/topics/1159104-overl...Higher interest rates have really hurt cash flow, and it's not worth it to buy something just to buy.

(Who knows how reliable the information that “some random people" provides.) 

Saw a random blog post about real estate investing that brought me to this site and I'm so excited to be here!

In the case of video rentals Netflix was a relatively late comer to pressuring rental stores.

I would say review the lease, make certain you are allowed to go in, check your local laws, and consider having multiple people there as witnesses, while video recording the entire time, the plumbing leak is being fixed.  

I personally suggest you stay away from this random turn key out of state stuff.

I had only stumbled upon BiggerPockets doing some random google researching and it has been very insightful.

I'm thinking of doing something extreme for my mail piece, like a video card or big gift box or something.

I love picking up either book and reading a random chapter or two."