Tenant screening and strong screening criteria are very important, NJ is a tough state to pick and choose your tenants so you need to be very clear as to what you require and it also has to fit the section you’re trying to rent in.

My strong advice is to start attending some local real estate clubs to begin building these relationships and developing your resources.

Brokers appreciate and value the feedback and it also allows you to build a strong relationship with them.  

Russell's right on: Virginia within an hour of DC has been a strong market for quite a while, and Amazon's HQ2 announcement at the end of 2018 just turned the heat up even higher.There are buy and hold opportunities for sure, not limited to SFH at all.

Background...the company I worked for since 2007 has recently been bought by a public, soon to be traded, Real Estate Investment Trust with a goal of aggregating 10,000+ units in the next 24 months (we're already a third of the way there). 

If you purchase 5 homes you’d want strong cash flow to avoid having 5 mortgages and worry about paying the monthly payment.

I have my investors stay in strong suburban to urban core.

I'm excited and nervous I'm flying to Detroit to look at and strongly considering buying my first oos rental property.

Retail footprints for anchors are decreasing and the uses are changing, however, retail demand is super strong it's just in different sectors than we have seen in the past. 

@Justin C.I would strongly recommend buying a multi family (3 or 4 units) and living in one of the units.