Fewer people are going into the trades and that is a huge constraint (not just the material costs you no doubt heard about, e.g. the lumber shenanigans).

If you can get a better return (and fewer headaches) with your money elsewhere, sell. 

Orlando is a beautiful vacation destination close to Disney World, but I wouldn't be able to maintain the property myself even though there are fewer limitations there.

There are always good deals out there to find, they just may come fewer and further between. 2.

Assume nothing is in bad condition to where it’s a hazard or dangerous just trashed and on the dirty side

For this can be said of men in general: that they are ungrateful, fickle, hypocrites and dissemblers, avoiders of dangers, greedy for gain; and while you benefit them, they are entirely yours, offering you their blood, their goods, their life, their children,...when need is far away, but when you actually become needy, they turn away.-- Niccolo MachiavelliAs long as I keep that quote firmly in mind, I find I have very little need to blab about my business and and its profitability outside of Bigger Pockets.

people away.As for fire danger: I am aware that if my insurance company decides to leave the area, I may not be able to find another one easily, due to proximity to a canyon with vegetation - despite no history of fires.

At the end of the year I download my buys from Lowes, HD, and Amazon, match up job codes, go through my receipt box, tell my accountant what each property cost me.If you really need multiple software solutions with fewer than 20 rentals you should be investing in index accounts.

@Aaron Mazzrillo   his pitch is to buy 30 to 40k turn key homes in Indy and you hit it right on the head .. about how many do you need for financial freedomthere was a long thread on this about how dangerous his model is.. and he is attracting of course the beginner investor who knows no better,  IE that is to buy a 30 to 40k all in rental in the mid west is buying squarely in the HOOD and the chance of financial freedom from someone buying these remote ,  IS well REMOTE at best , financial suicide at worst..2 or 3 of the top Turnkey providers made long posts about why this is not a smart investment ... and part of the issue is Morris invests marketing scheme of doing the take away close.IE people posting that to just get a phone call with Morris ( because they are so BUSY) you have to now wait until November..

Quote from @Ilya Ratner: For fewer than 10 rentals, I think a spreadsheet should suffice.