While it can help, and many here on BP promote doing so, the risk-reward over time isn't worth it.Number one, you can't scale it, but more importantly you'll eventually get burned by a tenant that takes advantage of you.

Great area for MTRs and STRs, but the market is very cluttered and many current STR owners have open calendars because of the mistaken belief that horse people have $$$ to burn - for that demographic, go to WEF - the Wellington Equestrian Festival further south.

Addressing the problems is like trying to put out small individual fires in a forest that is burning.

Fast forward 9 years, I'm burned out on the ups and downs of the tech life, and meantime I make a killing on my condo by just living in it.  

I have been asked to come down and help with an insurance claim down in Springfield, Missouri where a tenant burned down a house and the landlord is out the $2,500 deductible until subrogation is finished.

GRANITE HANDS DOWN.Concrete gives you the same color throughout,which granite can't.But granite is natural and you cant scratch or burn and you dont really need to seal every year.

And the part that really burns me is they make you go through all this wasted time on the phone "triaging" the problem when they are already aware of the issues.

My house burned down, I need money to fix it.

Yeah, many are after that 10/15% interest but what if the house burns down during the one year of redemption and the homeowner has no insurance?

If you are just driving by daily to make sure I haven't burn down your house, I tend to think this is a bit much.