I run a real estate data venture that pulls from various private and public sources and curates these reports, so it's not a simple answer.Social Sentiment: Search demand and what people are saying online.Neighborhood Class: Cleanliness, crime, graffiti, and overall health.Demographics: Identify market segments & trends.GDP & Economic Growth: County-level GDP changes to assess economic vitality.Poverty Metrics: Analyze economic challenges.Construction Activity: Easily predict market supply.Occupational Diversity: Forecast housing & commercial needs.Education Insights: Understand community stability.Real Estate Trends: Identify property value & rental cycles.Houston was just a place where I felt like sharing some knowledge.

Short terms provide get ROI numbers and have that benefit that a simple vacation home doesn’t.

They utilize Propertyware for the portal which is very simple and all maintenance requests and payments can be viewed in the portal.

But it may not be simple and the wholesale contract may not give you any rights. 

So basically my best options are to keep things simple: rent out the property as a whole in the other state or buy a house in my state and just get some roommates?

I want something geared more towards long-term rentals for this side of things, something that makes payments super simple (with a lot of options) for tenants would be great. 

Simple math: the lower the loan, the higher percentage of closing.Those $1M loans are usually 1% closing costs, for example.

Is it always that simple?

While it may seem like a simple concept, it's actually a very complex process that requires significant documentation as well as specific methodologies.

Forget trying to walk them through a simple repair over the phone, to avoid sending a ServiceTech and saving an owner money.