I have kicked the tires on mid term rental prospects in Champaign-Urbana, but that's it.

Continue to repeat #1 recommendation every 12 months until you are tired of moving.The ugly truth is that you need some money to start investing in real estate and I strongly recommend you do it with your own money before you start lending money from family and friends.All the best and keep up posted on your progress.

utm_source=...I think the nearest Hospital is 26-30 minutes away - maybe too far for a tired nurse to get off her shift and drive sleep.Does the salmon run go thru that river in the fall? 

If you controlled this deal you could present it to the right investor with the right proposal and split the $1000/month cashflowExample 2- Just got a call from a tired landlord.

At some point, and I think we've actually hit that point after the second hurricane in a month or whatever its been, is that people are going to be tired of dealing with these massive storms and the ever increasing rise in insurance rates.   

I do not see what you have to lose with this partnership.  1) you are tired of dealing with guests.  

I used to host a meetup, I stopped because I got tired of going to my own meetups and telling people what a terrible market we were in lol.

So many tire kickers out there.

About the time you are tired of self managing and the occasional hassle, the season ends and you get a break.

You also have to deal with a bunch of tire-kickers who just waste your time.The rest are only worth advertising on via syndication as not really enough traffic to justify resources to manually add.Of course, this is for our Metro Detroit market, each market may vary somewhat.