Instead, they often suggest investing in bonds and other fixed-income assets, which are generally lower risk.

Could I have an avg. rent of 4.33 days, outwork everyone (cleaner) by a substantial number of hours and not offer substantial services other than certain guest special request and meet the exception.Does the IRS consider all the marketing, accounting, bill paying, guest communications (daily inquiries), market research, pricing, real estate purchase, taxes, supply ordering, maintenance/ cleaning set ups, and a thousand other things we do yearly to keep the STR going as hours toward material participation?

Ask your potential accountant do they own rental properties, do they specialize in real estate taxation, how many years of experience do they have, etc.Good luck. 

Without doubt int his market a property can sell itself, so can my car, or a can of soda, if it's an awesome enough deal right, so nothing special there.

But here are some really interesting numbers...Ok so this one doesn't look too bad but notice how much more the townhouses and condos dropped in prices over the last downturn.2007 peak to now isn't so good...Before the 2007 run up to now is better, but even then, apartment condos performed the worse (so best case scenario, you have the worse performing asset type, worse case scenario you had a terrible return), and that's assuming you had nothing go wrong with the condo (special assessment etc)But benchmarks don't even tell the whole story, because if you had a specific condo investment, and you tracked it's value overtime, benchmark prices isn't the right approach as it evolves overtime (benchmark price is the price of a typical property generated at each point in time).

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Nonetheless, the State Bond Commission approved the funding extension.

Free market is good when some chosen/special folk benefit from it.

Here's how I do my due diligence:1) Portfolio matching: (takes 30 seconds per deal)a) Have an educated opinion on where I think we are in the real estate cycles (financial and physical market cycles)b) Then and only then do I pick the strategies, capital stack, and specialized asset subclasses that make sense for that opinion.

Some real-estate brokers in Phoenix specialize in rental house-hunting for evicted people, whose background checks are marred by their court records.