Begin a paper trail.

Lay out a healthy down payment, stay in warm weather areas and look for good schools (in as much as I can trust public schools, but that is another story). 

Unless a property returns an estimated 15% or so on paper I do not make an offer.

-Use a third party service Legal Zoom or another company to do all the paper work-Keep everything local including your bank accounts-Even if you have an account with a national bank with branches in your new state, still create a new account specific to that state.

I won;t lay out a plan for this, but I will tell you this.The one with all the leads is King.Focus on lead generation strategies THAT WORK, and everything else will fall in place!

That judgement, financially isn't worth the paper it's printed on in Texas. 

It's one thing to say "I was walking down the street one day and ran across a million dollar bill" and reality...not saying this isn't true, but my PFS says I'm a millionaire too and it's just a piece of paper...owning a million dollars in real estate doesn't mean you're a millionaire.I'd be game to chat offline to take a look at your model...always open to learning and growing from others experiences. 

You have your standard two-family layout.

and then they lawyer up and squat.. investors simply don't do that.. in the rare instance they don't pay its pretty cut and dry.. we have done about 60 million in this investor paper over the last 6 or so years and less than 500k has had a problemyou just don't have that success rate with owner occ NPN .. not sure what the ratios are but they are no where near that. 

You don't need to fill out any paper work in order to buy the deal.