And of course I would get a professional property management company to manage it for me.I've done extensive research on properties all over the US, and come to these conclusions: 1) It's really tough to find good cashflow opportunities in the northeast and west coast, 2) if you look in the south and midwest, however, there's a lot of smaller cities (population 50,000 - 200,000) that have tremendous cashflow opportunities.A couple of Qs:1) Does anyone have experience in selecting a city 1,000+ miles away from their home just to buy investment properties there?

Best school district in at least Houston of not the state, high population growth, very close to NASA, a mall and its coming in well below market (at least according to my agent).My questions are: 1.

I started in VA because it's close and more populated.   

A few things to look at:- what is the school population and how many dorm rooms do they have, schools will want to fill them first.- Are there any large complexes that serve the school?

Here in SoCal it is pretty easy to find renters since the population is so dense.

and they viewed my property as a fresh start to their life and treated it as such - I screen all of my applicants on their individual merit and to blindly strike entire groups and categories of population from your applicant pool is not good business no matter what you believe 

I'm looking in Brenham and College Station, although it seems CS is way more competitive and I think will stagnate when A&M caps student population.

We invest in Kansas City, MO due to the low taxes, great rental market, great job market and growing population!  

Gratefully I had a few markets to choose from and it narrowed down my search from "everywhere in the US" to a few markets.One thing I forgot to mention is I'm also looking only at metro areas with 250k+ population, so typically no tertiary markets.Ah, I like that metric.

There is less competition in both and I know nothing about Hawaii except that it is probably diverse and growing in population.