:)  It would be great to hear your thoughts on holding something through a huge 5-year infrastructure project.

Butte could 'use' flipping more so than Bozeman in my opinion as far as infrastructure goes.

Hello Sean, It can be very difficult to monitor lawn care and snow removal at a duplex when the tenants are responsible for it, typically landlords provide it + water and the rental rate can reflect that.

We have spent in the high seven figures on technology and infrastructure.

Self showings, leasing call centers, I have a insurance companies credit department that screens the tenants and monitors there default risk throughout the year.

Other more established business operators with proven systems likely have the infrastructure to get to the scarce amount of distressed inventory before your average 1st time investor ever would.

The problem is with Gastonia is this: (it's not the commute, because it's not far from the international airport, and you can be in Charlotte in the same amount of time it takes from Rock Hill or Lake Norman (two exploding areas)..) the problem with Gastonia is taxes and mismanagement of infrastructure funds.

InfrastructureMany of Germany’s cities are broken up into districts offering their own differing set of infrastructure variations.

Infrastructure.

If you are not going to be in the area while it is being leased, I would recommend finding an experienced co-host in the area that can carefully monitor things and help keep your AirBNB rating high.You can find a lot of experienced co-hosts through AirBNB and usually only need to pay them 10% of the guest fees.