What are you actually trying to achieve here?

The best way to find them is to send out mailers.Some good lists to target are Absentee Owners with Equity, Seniors with Long-time Ownership and Homeowners with Low Financial Stability Scores.You can work with a list broker to optimize your list for your area.

If your goal is to limit liability, you can probably achieve the same result with an LLP and some additional liability insurance.

Which is the opposite of what the city council is trying to achieve.

Houston Real Estate Highlights in March Single-family home sales rose 4.9 percent year-over-year, with 7,072 units sold, marking the second consecutive month of positive sales;Days on Market (DOM) for single-family homes remained unchanged at 64;Total property sales increased 3.6 percent, with 8,475 units sold;Total dollar volume jumped 5.7 percent to $2.4 billion;The single-family home median price rose 2.1 percent to $240,000, achieving a March high;The single-family home average price was up 2.0 percent to a March high of $298,766;Single-family homes months of inventory was at a 3.9-months supply, up from 3.3 months last March and at its most plentiful level since October 2018.

I've been listening to BP podcasts for about a year and a half now and because I have the shiny object syndrome, every investment strategy that I hear about sounds achievable to me.

Thanks for sharing, sounds like a good marketI was achieving 1% rule in Atlanta, however this market has been soaring since 2011 and now very difficult to achieve thisI have been buying SFH in the Detroit market. 

Both my wife and I have worked 15+ years in the housing/homelessness and Mental Health Non Profit sectors and realized that if we are ever going to achieve financial independence, we need to begin developing side incomes.I look forward learning from other BP fans in the SLC (and beyond) and am interested in best steps for evaluating rental properties and beginning to understand the local market.

Unfortunately, turnkey providers are heavily focused on Memphis due to cash flow and some of the best cash flow is achieved in C to D areas which are best left to local investors . 

Also to add, you could put a way higher percent down payment to make the 1% achievable but for a minimum 20% in this market could be upwards of 60k or more unless you find a great deal.