I grew up in Hempstead, so I am feeling very nostalgic right now.Hopefully you have had a chance to listen to some of the podcasts.  

I grew up in St Pete and have offices in Tampa, Orlando and Melbourne

Also, I grew up on James Island.

I grew up on the outskirts of Danville but have been gone about 15 years. 

However, rents grew by just -0.3% in 2023Q3—the slowest pace in more than ten years.The slack in trade flows, augmented by the effect of higher interest rates on business formation, brings uncertainty to the short-term outlook for the space market.

Rents grew by 0.6% over the past year and have underperformed the national index since late 2019.

As I grew, I started using Avail.co, which serves as management software and also performs all background/credit checks.

I grew up in Largo, FL. 

I started by investing in San Diego and then at some point went out of state to add on to portfolio for a few years and finally ended up selling off my out of state investments to purchase more here in San Diego, including the latest purchase, a multifamily property I purchased last month.I am partial to San Diego since I grew up here, invest here and am a Realtor here...It would be good for you to connect with local investors in any market that you want to get started in to shorten the learning curve a bit and to see what they are doing and how they are making it work....cash flow is great but that should be only 1 of many factors to consider when deciding to buy a piece of real estate and/or market.

JohnJohn, I grew up in WI but don't have any investing experience there or know of local lenders, However there are a lot of multi state HML now and that is very common, it can open your options up from to or 3 local ones to a dozen.