I'm looking for some ideas on questions I should be asking the realtor I might work with to buy my first rental property.

This is not a debate about Dave Ramsey-we are out of debt and have 6 months emergency fund and don’t adhere to his investing advice but I liked this idea when saving to buy real estate. 

I have been researching some data / cities for OOS and have tons of ideas. 

Do you have any idea how much an eviction might cost you?

We market the property at lower price and then discuss a sort of 'cost averaging' for that utility during lease signing.Here's another 'out of the box' idea - depending on your layout and climate - you may consider electric baseboard heat as a different option for heat, coupled with using window units for air....Jim

Any ideas?

Does anyone have any input/is that a bad idea?

I agree with many of those investors that a correction of some sort will happen but I am under the belief that it will not lead to prices decreasing much but rather stagnating for a few years.Though @Alvin Sylvain says he is new to investing, he has the right idea.

Any idea what base you wife will be assigned to?

If anyone is in Los Angeles and wants to meet up for a coffee and chat about long distance real estate investing, bounce ideas, search cities etc let me know!