I've grown more disgruntled with dealing with tenants. 

Used to own residential apartments and over the last couple years have been doing 1031 exchanges Hi William- I am a self storage specialist agent and can hop on a call with you sometime to help you navigate the territory Iv grown to understand after 4 years in brokerage.  

ID is a tough market right now unless you have large capital to beat out the competition.My CA properties have grown in size so much the ROE is not great.

You can grown your portfolio wide or deep, or a balance of both.

Quote from @Alecia Loveless:  I have a step-daughter that is grown who doesn’t have the financial sense God gave a goose.

In that order.Having grown up in the Phenix City/Columbus area I highly recommend you know Columbus before you decide to invest in the city as well.

Also as you mentioned, people are scared to buy and make long-term commitments so it's a ripe time to own rentals because the pool of renters has grown.  

Warren Davis, how was that last meeting i apologize for not being there again.Had a big get together with the family on Mother's Day.But i hope to see you guy's on the next one, so has our group growning bigger or same people.Let me know so we can try getting some new California investor's in our group and making it the ,biggest BIGGERPOCKETS club in SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA..HAPPY INVESTING..

While working a Full Time job as a Wells Fargo MBS Consultant (among other business ventures), I've grown my portfolio to 36 rental units.

@Jim Chuong My interest in investing real estate out-of-city has grown tremendously.