It results in tenant friendly laws.  

Get a friend/relative/co-worker to rent a room from you?

Some people seem to get locked in to one place they find, or a place a friend or family member is selling without really evaluating the available market.In a small town in East Texas I would think your biggest risk is a big player coming to town that can absolutely crush a smaller player. 

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Then if in the US you have to find a friend of theirs to get their contact info.    2.  

AJ Fields Inc. began when we saw an opportunity to take over management responsibilities for a family friend’s properties.

At that point I dont know investing would make any sense, I have heard scary stories I was thinking about short term rentals but that needs constant cleaning after guests and conpetition is very high my friend spent almost 200k out of pockets to buy a property for airbnb and he got 17 bookings per year....

He himself was a felon on parole, and his friend who was an addict, he was his cell mate.

The people are super friendly and enjoyable.

I haven’t used them yet but Universal Settlement Services is an investor friendly title company in the state college/altoona area.