Amber, If you have any questions regarding self management,  feel free to pick my brain. 

How do you pick the markets you invest in, particularly with so many small towns shrinking the way they have been?

Reaching out to anyone in the Bigger Pockets community that would love to help a brand new investor pick his feet up off the ground with advice!!

Purchase price: $210,000 Cash invested: $1,800 We picked up another two rentals for our company!

If it doesn't get picked up direct through one of our FB groups for investors, I'll probably list it as an as-is fixer.  

Arvit just go into the Real Estate Events and Happenings section here on the BiggerPockets forums and you'll see that there are plenty of ways for you to not recreate the wheel with other networking events already in place. 

Pick what works for you.

Pick somewhere you might enjoy taking family to.

We also send out letters periodically when the owners aren't picking up their poop in the yard that they have 30 days to do the cleanup (or hire a pet clean up vendor that we recommend) or we will bill them for the cost and it is a violation when it comes time for lease renewal. 

If there's any damage or trash they need to pick up on the lot, that's taken out of the deposit.