Get a great team of property management wherever you go and they will take care of the day to day while you focus on your career and acquiring properties. 

Moving to the New Orleans area and changing careers to the oil industry has put me in a good market with solid income to more readily achieve my ambitions of supplementing my income and eventually replacing it through cash flowing rentals and flips.  

When I was brand new in my investing career, I feel for one of those because I just didn't know any better. 

I am looking for a location with good schools, good culture and of course a great place to grow my real estate investing career.

At the bottom of this post I will copy paste a comment left by an old friend who definitely had his financial freedom through his corporate work and is living a very financially safe life due to his pharmacy socal career.

I hope to get up to speed quickly so I contribute back ASAP.I'm a full-time front-end engineer earning a respectable salary at a mature startup that so far seems poised to do well in the next few years. 

So you can think of the service they provide as some kind of aggregator who earns a fee based on transactions alone which aligns the platforms interests with volume, possibly at the expense of outcomes.

And maybe these machines can even earn you an extra dollar or two over the remaining lease period.

There’s so much in terms of resources out there to kick start a career in anything.

You can still start a successful REI career, I have!