There are a ton of CRMs out there but we use Zoho for its ease of customization and integrations.2.)

It is for the great return and the ease of owning.Never the less, I recommend RE investors invest in their local market. 

It can create some tension, but that's why REI can be so lucrative, sometimes you have to do hard stuff that no one else wants to do. 

Hopefully Covid will ease up soon and we can finally get together at some meetups. 

I am a NJ PM owner and started using Baselane, as well, for its ease of setting up virtual accounts, transaction categorization, and overall organization. 

., you are capitalized at something like 250k and somehow got loans on the other 3.2-3.4MM For ease of the maths: If at the start you were to take your 200k and put down payments on 1MM worth of property (assuming zero closing costs, prepaid escrows, etc.)... you're tapped out. 

Look for properties with high tension power lines over it.  

Also, I'm looking for something to keep me busy as I ease into my retirement.You are trying to hack the primary residence part to reduce taxes and if you really can do it and you really live there then it will be fair, but if you deviate at all, the town will come for you and you will never get anything renovated if they think you aren't living there and it's not liveable.

I appreciate the ease of management that comes with mid-term rentals, but I have some concerns.

A property manager could ease landlord duties.