Utah has some of the cheapest tax and insurance rates, but their rent to price ratio is horrible and rents don't keep up with housing increases like they do here. 

The blood spatter on the walls and floor?

This isn’t about immediate affordability; it’s about creating a sustainable system that gradually reduces costs and increases accessibility through scale and efficiency.Institutionalizing Cultural and Economic ValueSimilar to how pension funds and university endowments operate, this model institutionalizes cultural value.

It allows tenants to increase their credit scores by an average of 60 points, and I provide it free of charge.I have over 600 adult tenants.

During turnovers they fix everything, and by everything, I mean they look for anything that they can do to increase the SOW in order to skim as much as they can off the work costs.

By accepting pets, it not only has it increased my cash flow per stay, but it has opened up my place for more bookings. 

San Diego SFH rad average rent increase of $600/month last year (source Core Logic).  

The goal is to cash flow so I will rehab the property and increase the rent.

Combine that with rates that are near high for this century.  3 things could solve this 1) RE prices fall (that would be bad for me) 2) rents increase a lot without RE prices increasing similarly (this would be bad for tenants) 3) rates fall a lot.  

If you can find properties where you can add value (adding units, increasing rents) then you can increase the value of the property, refi and get your money out.