You can self manage and safe PM fees.

Seems pretty safe to me.

In your opinion, where are the areas to focus on that have proven to be wise neighborhoods to invest in, but safe enough for an investment.  

. - It's been proven many times over that software running in the cloud (by a responsible party) is significantly more safe than data on your own hardware.  

There has been general notion Katy is a safe investor  bet , is that still true ? 

Good luck, stay safe and warm.

Last night I hosted a meeting featuring an attorney who does private lending, and last year I hosted a former attorney who does HML, and both of them basically said that for them to be safe they would not do the loan on a sheriff sale purchase until after the deed was recorded - so that the new owner actually had something that could be pledged as collateral; buyer uses all cash and refinances after they have the deed.

Better to be safe than sorry.

Either get a fire proof safe or bank locker and now a days there are a lot of cloud based online storage solutions available as well but they will of course only have scanned copies not originals. 

@Bryan Pham , Im new to real estate, I don't think I'm familiar with that technique, you mind sharing how this would work?