If you go RBTR, here are a few key criteria I've seen to assure comfort of living and lower vacancy / turnover:- at least 400sqft per tenant and no more than 2 tenants to 1 full bath -excess parking where folks aren't blocking each other in and you're not getting complaints from your neighbors about overtaking the street parking.

Most people really don't understand this fact (myself include prior to moving here) and it can trip you up if you don't have reliable "boots on the ground" or a thorough understanding of neighborhoods and blocks.

Try to buy “blocks of time” in advance?

In Wilkes-Barre there are lots of side by side duplexes (double blocks) that are separately titled.

I set up my daily time blocks on GC and watch the ted line steal my day away for motivation.

@Ryan Rubel There are certainly quite a few restrictions in those two areas, in Carlsbad you have to be within the coastal Zone...I have a multifamily in Carlsbad Village a block outside of the coastal zone so I'm unable to operate it as an STR unfortunately.

On a 5 block walk to get to Chase Field, there was exactly ONE possibly 'homeless person' and he was playing the guitar for everyone. 

But H&R Block was "with Watson" at least as way back as 2018!

Lot of the issue stems from pillars / blocks that sit on top of the soil in the crawl.

And you still have to demo the concrete slab (I don't think you have basements in TX?)