Now I can buy one type of paint for all the houses, and some other small things, but having 50 units is 50 separate units. there are just better ways to do things 2a concentrations of geography.

I'd also be cautious with the holiday season coming up as normally people tend to concentrate on the holidays more than looking for a place to leave.

Native New Mexican here, transplanted to Massachusetts.Bought first property at 33, a 3 story triplex.Re: student rentals, you could concentrate your marketing toward STEM graduate and medical students at UNM.

:In older structures originally painted with oil-based paint, when you put too much concentrated TSP on your walls and scrub it in with a sponge mop, multiple layers of latex paint go soft and start peeling right off down to the oil-based paint.

In the area I'm concentrating on you can get a mobile on 1 acre for $20-35K.

If you use debt you'll also need to learn how to organize your PFS for the bank and the games they'll play when developing new relationships with developers with their limited loan capacity for this type of project to reduce their concentration risk with their regulators.  

I've never seen such a concentration of insurance business like I have here. 

Also, these homes aren't concentrated currently in one location.  

I can use that time and money to concentrate on growing my real estate business.

Yes, I could have been a bit clearer in what I meant but most people don't major in philosophy and concentrate on the main points.In summary, while there some some markets that I like, I will not go into every single market during the uncertain times.