I also organize our local meetup in Dothan.

As are cellular towers, fiber, the internet, the local gas station, vape shop, computer monitors, keyboards, search engines, and just about everything else you can imagine.  

It wasn't speculation, mind you, just good old-fashioned local market knowledge and education on the strong underlying fundamentals (jobs, population growth, desirability, affordability). 2. 

Local governments haven't a clue as to the dramatic shift in the business they caused and ultimately higher rents and tighter standards they created. 

@Joseph O'Sullivan start going to local meetups, talk to other new investors, but don't spend on trials because you will be looking without 20-20 vision if that makes sense.

There not reality, go to your local RE meetup You will learn more in a few days then months and months of reading.

Unless there are state or local laws (and there are) prohibiting discrimination based on source of income you can legally not rent to people on a non-garnishable source of income.

I am local Realtor here in Southern California.

Like local senator office for some distric manager.  

He's based in the UK so he's not local to the markets he works in so you really need to vet their entire leadership and staff who manage the execution, not just the owner.