It provides a solid foundation and ensures smooth operations.Additionally, you might want to explore marketing to corporate and insurance partners for mid-term rentals.

Cleveland and Dayton can be great markets for high cash flow and low purchase prices, but you need to be careful when navigating the neighborhoods so you're not buying in a D/F class area where no property managers will manage and where you'll never see any positive cash flow.

It sounds like your current property manager may not be marketing the rental effectively, and the fact that it's listed incorrectly as an apartment instead of a duplex could be turning off potential renters.

You will likely need to find something off market.

Our focus is on mid market 50-100 unit's but happy to help.

Our team has been involved in over 120 flips nationwide as the designer and over 60 in our local market as the investor.

And this is so market specific..  

@Lauren MerendinoI strongly believe that your chosen market should be somewhere that you can go to in person / have strong personal knowledge of / have family or a network in already.  

The structure also allows for mitigated tenant and maintenance risk, but it has increased dependence on market movements due to being appreciation based.

Quote from @Francisco Milan: These really do not do much these days for people finding most of the listing online; however, you need to be sure that you put one out because any lead is a lead to put in your database to market to.