Located on a busy street but in a great area.

However they keep telling me they are looking for a new place and cannot find one, and that "we're not going to live in the street."

I may put a neighborhood (if its a popular well known one), a block # (xxx block of main st).

With a 3rd party they manage so many things, my easy to deal with issues could get blown up.However, hiring my own people, I can train them myself as close to my image as possible. think about it like the wolf of wall street. he trains his salespeople to act like him and in essence they all do as well as he does. doing the math on it...if I can get 150 tenants making 250 profit off each/monthHave a full time handyman and office assistant at a combined 90k/year, I'd rather go the employee route

Especially, if you decide to buy in San Diego neighborhoods near high demand or popular areas such as beaches, entertainment, tourism, etc.

and proceeds to explain to me that he's looking to downsize, has 3 empty rooms in his house, has owned it for 12 years, there are 5 rental properties on his street, etc. 10 minutes into our ride, my agent-friend was looking up comps on his address, and I got his phone number to reach out to him later.

Also, try to find out if your PM has listed it just on the popular sites like Zillow, or have listed it on every site in existence.  

Put the money in cash so you don't lose money in the Wall Street casino.  

A good 10% are in a town that is really popular and difficult to find anything.

It's about a 10min drive from downtown Jersey city Grove Street path where there is a lot of new development.