Mary’s County: Median home price sits around $365K, growing at about 4-5% annually. 

If you are serious about either retail and/or industrial, I would be sitting down with brokers, looking up owners, making friends with people that work in the space and trying to pull out their war stories.  

I'd suggest you sit down and go through your monthly expenses and see where you are spending your money and if anything can be cut. 

There is no reason to spend thousands to fly there and sit in on a RE meeting.

Another effect is people who own outright just let the house sit without a Tennant.

By charging below on rent, you're losing profit, and by overcharging, your properties may end up sitting vacant, which ultimately will cost quite a bit.

@Nick C.Because when someone is serious about transforming their life, and they constantly hear the marketplace is full of scammers, they decide to sit out and miss an opportunity.The other problem is that most people don't put in the work to achieve the results.

I also think it's great that our property isn't sitting empty when we're gone and because we own and live on-site, our neighbors also keep an eye out for us. 

Frankly for us, it is better to let it sit for 4-5 months with an occasional booking instead of renting it for cheap during the off season.

My brain want's to automatically assume rents were not collected, not that they were just sitting on your $$$$ because that, wow, that's a BIG problem and a VERY bad sign of things if that's the case.